Wonderland

An NPR Best Book of 2014<br> A <i>Time</i> Top Ten Fiction Book of 2014<br> A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors Choice<br> A BBC Top Ten Book of 2014<br> <br> Briskly addictive . . . Told in the voice of a female rock Ulysses. <i>O, the Oprah Magazine</i><br> <br> Marvelous . . . D Erasmo conjures up the seedy, sexy spectacle of life on the road with amazing vividness, and fills in the inner life of a woman who has one last chance to get her voice heard. Lev Grossman, <i>Time</i><br> <br> Anna Brundage is a rock star. She was an overnight indie sensation, but lost her fame just as fast as she found it. Now forty-four, she pours everything into a comeback, selling her famous father s art to finance an album and a European tour. <i>A </i>riveting look at the life of a musician and the moving story of a woman s unconventional path, <i>Wonderland</i> is a glimpse of how it feels when a wish just might come true.<br> <br> Anna made me think of Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, mixed with a little bit of Janis. <i>Paste</i><br> <br> Richly interior . . . What makes Anna such a powerful narrator is her seductive desire to keep her options open. <i>Washington Post</i><br> <br> Stacey D Erasmo is a recipient of Guggenheim and Stegner fellowships and the author of five works of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has also appeared in the<i> New York Times, </i><i>Bookforum, </i> and elsewhere. She teaches in Columbia University s MFA program."