Green Girl is the Bell Jar for today - an existential novel about Ruth, a young American in London, kin to Jean Seberg gamines and contemporary celebutantes. Ruth works a string of meaningless jobs: perfume spritzer at a department store she calls Horrid's, clothes-folder, and a shopgirl at a sex shop. Ruth is looked at constantly- something she craves and abhors. She is followed by a mysterious narrator, the voice equally violent and maternal. Ruth and her toxic friend, Agnes, are obsessed with cosmetics and fashion and film, with boys, with themselves, and with each other. Green Girl is about that important and frightening and exhilarating period of being adrift and screwing up, a time when drunken hook-ups and infatuations, nervous breakdowns, and ecstatic epiphanies are the order of the day.

Kate Zambreno is the author of the novel O Fallen Angel (Chiasmus Press). Her blog, Frances Farmer Is My Sister, has partially inspired a book of literary essays to be published by Semiotext(e)'s Active Agents Series in spring, 2012. She is the prose editor at Nightboat Books, and a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.