Rowbottom’s sophomore outing offers a powerful, vivid, visceral look at the heyday of the adult film industry from the perspectives of the women who populated it.
This unctuous tale of liberation, the performance of sex, and friendship told against the neon facade of 1980’s Los Angeles has just the right amount of grime and the right amount of heart.
An intimate and kinetic tale of friendship and betrayal in the 1980s Los Angeles porn world ... Rowbottom’s portrayal of the porn demimonde is exciting and gritty without feeling lurid, and the novel doubles as a moving ode to the value of a female friendship. It’s a knockout.
