The Sabotage Café
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407065229
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Praise for The Sabotage Cafe 'Skillfully and ingeniously written, this gripping account presents the devastating effect of a mother's instability on her child . . . Highly recommended.'
Library Journal
Joshua Furst's The Sabotage Café renders beautifully-through both its observational intelligence and the shrewd deployment of a quietly radical and flexible point of view-the obsessive neediness of a mother whose own past screwups make her all the more terrified for her daughter. As it does, it provides a harrowing account of the way, for better and very much for worse, we cling to the notion that we live inside our children and they live inside us.
Jim Shepard
Flawless eloquence... The reader cares immensely how it ends... Remarkable. No reader of fiction, whether a fan of punk music or not, should miss it
Washington Times
this is a taut, mesmerising debut
The Herald