Hell yeah. BAD HABITS, this book ive been working on for a million years, is out now on Soft Skull Press. Please ask your local indipendent bookstore to carry it, cause thats the best way to buy books.

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BAD HABITS A Love Story (Soft Skull Press)



Moving to New York City for Carmencita Gutierrez Alonzo, otherwise known as Car, dictated the beginning of a self-imposed mental cleansing, denoting an era of destruction and change. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT OVERCOMING THE EFFECTS OF AN ABUSIVE AND MANIPULATIVE RELATIONSHIP, and Car's quest for rebirth. Consequently, rebirth was untamed and measured by shitty news, occasional breakdowns, destructive splurges, and life altering orgasms. Geographically escaping the past's trauma in order to get over the past, proves to be worthless without the additional, internal redemption. The route to heal earnestly is always winding in a world where healing without a steady paycheck, health insurance, a mainstream identity, or mental stability can often times seem impossible. That is, at least, without harsh self-doubt or unfortunate addictions. This journey of getting over trundles through wild living situations, drunks, punks, awkward mornings, semi-revelatory acid trips, complex definitins of love, complex embraces of lust, complex laws on sexual violence, and a decaying Brooklyn where every glass condo swells the cost of living for a minimum wage society. Finding solace in things like Coney Island, hair metal, and her circle of friends; Carmencita transforms her bad habits into some rendition of living, and somewhat, achieving.