Cover Crush: Pulp by Robin Talley
Pulp by Robin Talley is a homage to the lesbian pulp fiction of the 50’s! When the cover & excerpt was just revealed last week on Paste Magazine, it was everything I wanted it to be! Pulp is told story in two narratives, the 1955 story of the oppressed lesbian woman writing pulp fiction and a current student doing a project exploring pulp fiction. Doesn’t that sound so interesting? When Robin told me about this book at NoVaTeen festival I couldn’t even imagine just how awesome the cover would be. I knew it would have that pulp fiction feel but this exceeded all my expectations! I absolutely love it and can’t wait to get my hands on this book! Pulp is releasing this fall on November 13th, so be sure to add it to your TBR now!
Pulp by Robin Talley
Category: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, LGBT
Publication: November 13th, 2018; Harlequin Teen
Purchase: Amazon
In 1955, eighteen-year-old Janet Jones keeps the love she shares with her best friend Marie a secret. It’s not easy being gay in Washington, DC, in the age of McCarthyism, but when she discovers a series of books about women falling in love with other women, it awakens something in Janet. As she juggles a romance she must keep hidden and a newfound ambition to write and publish her own story, she risks exposing herself—and Marie—to a danger all too real.
Sixty-two years later, Abby Zimet can’t stop thinking about her senior project and its subject—classic 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. Between the pages of her favorite book, the stresses of Abby’s own life are lost to the fictional hopes, desires and tragedies of the characters she’s reading about. She feels especially connected to one author, a woman who wrote under the pseudonym “Marian Love,” and becomes determined to track her down and discover her true identity.
In this novel told in dual narratives, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley weaves together the lives of two young women connected across generations through the power of words. A stunning story of bravery, love, how far we’ve come and how much farther we have to go.
