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The daring debut of the Beat Generation's first woman novelist It's 1955. A week before her graduation from Barnard College, Susan Levitt asks herself, "Imagine if you lived your complete life without urgency?" - right before going out to make things eventually her that will shatter the mask of conformity concealing her feelings of alienation. If Susan continues to be "good", marriage and security await her. But her hunger is rising for the self-discovery that originates from existential freedom. After breaking up with the Columbia boy she knows she could marry, Susan seeks out those she considers "outlaws": the brave and fragile Kay, who may have moved into a rundown hotel, in order to "see more than 50 percent when I walk down the street"; the vulnerable adolescent rebel Anthony; and Peter, the restless hipster graduate student who has become the object of Kay's unrequited devotion. This fascinating novel - that your author started writing annually before her face with Jack Kerouac - is a young woman's complex respond to the liberating messages of the Beat Generation. In a subversive feminist move, Johnson gives her heroine all the freedom the male Beat writers reserved for men, to visit her own road.
