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Blue Raspberry
The sun sets upon the '90s, and the new millennium stretches ahead. In the heart of Bay Area California, wayward teens drift through skateparks and parking lots. Best friends get neglected and friendships are tested. Blue Raspberry is a coming-of-age story bathed in the sweet heartache of nostalgia. Fly-by-night startups and fast company. Coke and Prozac in the land of absent parents. Literary fiction for nü-metalheads and escapism for the damned. Every hero’s journey has lied to: Life is a mosaic of suffering. It stretches on and on like an endless film reel. All I’ve done is clip a few segments for you to witness.
"With shades of KIDS, SALTBURN and THE GRADUATE, Remo Nassutti’s Blue Raspberry is a coming-of-age West Coast homage to the post-Y2K era. A sharply written debut novel about lost boys, lost innocence, and the millennial young adult experience."
— Wendy Dalrymple, author of CREDENZA and BIRTHDAY PARTY DEMON
"A sorrowful dirge to a lost generation raised on anti-depressant cocktails, Blue Raspberry is powerful and poignant, beautiful and existentially disturbing, passing like summer under a diseased sky."
— Coy Hall, author of THE OWL MEN OF SHANIDAR
"Blue Raspberry reads like a transmission from the edge of adolescence and America. It's a new classic for the medicated, alienated, over-stimulated generation."
— Neda Aria, author of US, WOMEN and RED WINGS
"With shades of KIDS, SALTBURN and THE GRADUATE, Remo Nassutti’s Blue Raspberry is a coming-of-age West Coast homage to the post-Y2K era. A sharply written debut novel about lost boys, lost innocence, and the millennial young adult experience."
— Wendy Dalrymple, author of CREDENZA and BIRTHDAY PARTY DEMON
"A sorrowful dirge to a lost generation raised on anti-depressant cocktails, Blue Raspberry is powerful and poignant, beautiful and existentially disturbing, passing like summer under a diseased sky."
— Coy Hall, author of THE OWL MEN OF SHANIDAR
"Blue Raspberry reads like a transmission from the edge of adolescence and America. It's a new classic for the medicated, alienated, over-stimulated generation."
— Neda Aria, author of US, WOMEN and RED WINGS
150 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 30, 2025
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About the author
Remo Nassutti
5 books25 followersRemo is an author from the San Fransisco Bay Area. His work appears via 34Orchard, Heads Dance Press, 3-B Publishing, and Shoot Your Eye Out. He holds a master's degree in sociology from Colorado State University. Remo currently lives in Seattle with his partner, Brittan.
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November 28, 2025
So Bret Easton Ellis w/o being a limp imitation. The reason we started this press.
August 4, 2025
Every time I read it (many), I made new connections. It felt like Less Than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis) but funnier in an ironic way, artsier. A quick y2k/early aughts read w/o banging you over the head with cheap nostalgia.
September 10, 2025
Catcher In The Rye for the millennial generation? This is many vignettes of the skate kids and others slipping between distracted adults, high school, and their own pending sentence to said adulthood in Silicon Valley circa 2005.
The story is sketchy, not to be confused with sketch--each snippet adds just enough to it so it arrives at that grim inflection point where the uncertain, stressful days of childhood start to become the uncertain, stressful days of adulthood, and the kids have to venture outside the chainlink fence of the adolescent skate park.
Do make sure you heed the words of "The Tape Girl," she knows things beyond her station...
The story is sketchy, not to be confused with sketch--each snippet adds just enough to it so it arrives at that grim inflection point where the uncertain, stressful days of childhood start to become the uncertain, stressful days of adulthood, and the kids have to venture outside the chainlink fence of the adolescent skate park.
Do make sure you heed the words of "The Tape Girl," she knows things beyond her station...
July 31, 2025
A sorrowful dirge to a lost generation raised on anti-depressant cocktails, Blue Raspberry is powerful and poignant, beautiful and existentially disturbing, passing like summer under a diseased sky.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews