The Beautifully Worthless

Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction. " The Beautifully Worthlessis an outrageous act of kindness."--Eileen Myles "She's insanely talented, it's mad. The Beautifully Worthlesscrisscrosses the USA, like Close to the Knives, like Kerouac, desperately seeking out everything occluded and driven, a frenzy of seeking frozen into poetry."--Kevin Killian A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.