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Fallout Girl by Katie Rose Guest Pryal

What's It About?

Fractured family, deadly secrets, and a woman on the run in L.A.  

I’m a sucker for broken families–well, stories about them, anyway. Throw in secrets, especially L.A. secrets, and I’m in with both feet.  

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Most of the cast in Fallout Girl (Blue Crow Publishing) are twenty-somethings. It’s the age of becoming: choosing a career and a place to live, figuring out what sort of a person you want to be and who you want to be with. It’s like being a teenager, only this time the choices you make are for real.

But twenty-something is still young. The best thing about being young is believing you can replace your supremely messed-up family with a group of friends. The worst thing about being young is figuring out it isn’t that simple—blood relatives or not, it’s always down to you.

​ Big sigh.

Our testy heroine, Miranda​,​ hops a plane to Los Angeles the day of her mother’s funeral​, and falls into the safety net of friends who are more loyal than she can handle. Miranda is touching down, not staying; she’s on the run from her loved ones, ​her history, herself.  She is as prickly as a saguaro, and emotionally radioactive–or thinks she is–​blowing up relationships like they don’t matter. It’s dead simple to flub such a damaged, complex character, especially when mental illness is the mix, but Pryal’s honest, clear storytelling kept me rooting for Miranda and riveted to the page. I truly wanted Miranda to find happiness, or at least a little peace. And I hoped to God she would survive that crazy-ass motorcycle ride….

Modern, fresh, and entirely credible, Fallout Girl is a love story wrapped inside a heart-rending struggle for personal freedom. ​Take it with you on your summer vacation or, better yet, start with the first in the Hollywood Lights series, Entanglement.​ That’s my next move.

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Fallout Girl by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publish Date: 5/7/2018
Genre: Fiction
Author: Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publisher: Blue Crow Books
ISBN: 9781947834250
Sonja Yoerg

Sonja Yoerg grew up in Stowe, Vermont, where she financed her college education by waitressing at the Trapp Family Lodge. She earned a Ph.D. in biological psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and wrote a nonfiction book about animal intelligence, Clever as a Fox (Bloomsbury USA, 2001). Her novels, House Broken (2015), Middle of Somewhere (2015), and All the Best People (2017), are published by Penguin/Berkley. Sonja lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

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