Bye-Bye

Reading Bye-Bye I felt driven by desire to see what would happen next. The protagonist explores some mighty perturbing situations but ultimately, this is a book about 'self' and also, more subtly, about bravery, for to view oneself as honestly as this character does requires nothing short of courage. I enjoyed this tightly narrated book immensely--and also learned about a part of me I am not always ready to admit exists.--Lucy Greatlyauthor of Autobiography of a FaceBye-Bye is the most exciting book of its kind to come along in years. And just what is its kind? That of the quest for truth--truth as immediate reality, rather than as a relic to be stashed in a savings account. The quest is pursued through the intertwining tangles of love, bisexual eroticism, and perhaps friendship; its telling provides the freshest writing about sex since Henry Miller.--Harry Matthewsauthor of The Journalist and Singular PleasureJane Reavill Ransom is gifted with a sharp eye for telling detail, a keen ear for the twists and turns of colloquial speech, and a wicked wit. Bye-Bye is a fiendishly funny and sinister shocker.--Frederick Morganeditor of The Hudson ReviewJane Ransom's Bye-Bye is a darkly comic first novel, both sexy and profoundly philosophical. The protagonist/narrator is a bisexual divorcee in Manhattan who assumes a false identity in an effort to escape the past and to spy on her own life. While exploring issues of gender and self, Bye-Bye deals provocatively with performance art, S & M, personal ads and art in the 90s.