Generation Loss

nShirley Jackson Award Winner n n nBeliever Book Award finalist nn nCass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the nburgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians n and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into nart galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on nher way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a nmercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an n island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a ndecades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final nshot at redemption. Generation Loss is the Shirley Jackson Award winning n novel that launched Elizabeth Hand's ex-punk photographer Cass Neary ninto the world.n nElizabeth Hand's Cass Neary series began in 2008 with Generation Loss, a startling and addictive novel that introduced a protagonist fueled by drugs and post-punk irreverence. n n-- Danielle Trussoni, New York Times Book Review n nn n nSharp, clear, and mercilessly lean. Not only did that style fit nCass, it fit Hand: The author, roughly the same age as her character, nwas also a part of the punk scene in her youth. Generation Loss n rasps with gritty authenticity, from the copious references to artists nlike Iggy Pop and the Ramones to the way Cass' hardcore attraction to ndamage and destruction propels her deep into the book's maze of murder nand secrets. n n-- Jason Heller, NPR nn n nAlthough it moves like a thriller, it detonates with greater resound. A dark and beautiful novel. n n--Washington Post Book World nn n nCass is a marvel, someone with whom we take the difficult journey ntoward delayed adulthood, wishing her encouragement despite grave odds. n --Los Angeles Times nn