Sleeping With Random Beasts

by Karin Goodwin

Karin Goodwin's racy first novel, which found an enthusiastic audience in hardcover, is now available in a glossy new trade paperback edition. Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as an "engaging debut novel that...[ends] with a startling and beautiful flourish," this fast-paced tale of tough-talking Bean is priced to move and ready to rock. The story begins as Bean, fed up with her dead-end job and lout of a boyfriend, leaves her uninspired life to travel across country, settling old scores and making new mistakes along the way. Fueled by a reckless energy and scathing wit that just manages to override her natural cynicism, Bean presses forward toward her surprising future. Exploding with unrestrained, irrepressible humor and insight, this daring first novel is impossible to put down.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Vivienne Strauss]

A really great read, truly illustrates how easy it is to make so many bad decisions. No glossing over family dysfunction but glad it ended on a positive note.