Mia Cross has everything most girls dream of. And she's miserable. Deftly shifting voices between a sociopathic teenage seductress and a middle-aged novelist tortured by the specter of his past, F***ing & Punching is a devastating, comedic, uncompromisingly real account of upper-middle class fear and angst in 2008 Los Angeles. A Los Angeles full of S&M. Blackmail. Creative bankruptcy. And unbearable loneliness. This is the vivid, macabre world of Cross, the writer of the most anticipated memoir of the year. A memoir whose relentless honesty is as fearless as its author is young. (less info)