forward in this generation

Katie

June 24, 2011

In New York I get what amounts to the best news of my young life and Sierra meets me at Columbus Circle to celebrate. We wander up the west side, warm and giddy; we eat french fries and nachos for dinner and drink a great number of sugary cocktails. Topics of discussion include: other people’s hipster weddings, our families, and whether or not she should cut off all her hair. I say, why not? At Prohibition the band is playing Redemption Song and a Dave Matthews tune I can’t remember the name of, only that I know it from a long, long time ago.

Don’t worry, I text Tom, when I get back to J’s apartment. I am very safe and awesome.

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Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. She is also the co-author, with Candace Bushnell, of Rules for Being a Girl. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Mississippi Review, and Argestes, as well as many other literary magazines. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. She lives in Boston with her family.