Erica Abeel, a college professor, former dancer, journalist and film critic, has published 5 books, including the novel Women Like Us, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Living in New York City and based in New York and Long Island, she loves to write about warrior women who lived against the grain before the upheavals of the 60s.
"...Laced with gleeful, biting commentary. Toward her three
protagonists, she is unsparing and compassionate in perfect
proportion. Those who haven't tried her yet--women and men of all
ages--should give her a try."
--Kirkus Reviews
"The Wild Girls will resonate with anyone who witnessed the
cultural revolution of the 1950s and 60s, or wishes that they had.
I loved it."
--HistoricalNovelSociety.org
"Wild Girls is a novel about a few women rebels who came of age in
the 50s with the Beats in Paris, Allen Ginsberg (when he was still
sleeping with girls), and a Yoko Ono-based character in early 60s
New York. More importantly, Erica Abeel IS a 'Wild Girl'--she lived
the life, these are her friends, and this is an insider's peek into
that world."
--Kevin Kwan
author of Crazy Rich Asians
"Erica Abeel writes with the eye of Margaret Mead and the soul of
Tolstoy. In stunning and electric prose she gives us captivating -
thrillingly flawed - characters and we embrace them, even when it
might be wiser to flee. Along the way, she shows us the brilliance
and devastation of love; the hidden geometry of complicated
marriages; and the interwoven force fields of deep
friendships."
--Grace Dane Mazur
author of Hinges
"This libidinous period novel follows three budding feminists
through an elite women's college, the New York art scene, and Allen
Ginsberg's bed, as they redefine womanhood for themselves and
future generations."
--Oprah Magazine
"With Wild Girls , Erica Abeel tells a story very much in the
tradition of Mary McCarthy, Rona Jaffe and yes, even Jacqueline
Susann. What her smart and accessible novel shows is the underside
of bohemianism: that it rarely has worked for women. Wild Girls
brings us females who long for personal freedom, but who must
struggle for it against both the mainstream and the
counter-culture. This is the hidden story of the beats and the
hipsters and its one worth telling."
--Claudia Dreifus
journalist, author
"With literary finesse, the novel leaps through its wild moments
with ease."
--ForewordReviews.com
"Young American women defying cultural expectations and inventing
their own lives is one of my favorite subjects--and I am not alone.
Erica Abeel's Wild Girls tells the delicious, page-turning story of
three very different but equally thoughtful rebels from 1950s
America, embarking on adventures that involve everyone from Allen
Ginsburg to Yoko Ono . . . This book will bathe the reader in a
time and place in which female self-invention was never more
important, exhilarating, and challenging. With feminism a
passionate concern of today's young female journalists and
Hollywood actresses and directors, I can hardly think of a timelier
read."
--Sheila Weller
author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon
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