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Scaffolding
Punk Portland in the nineteen nineties. Mentally ill queer Lena Cosentino comes of age at Reed College. Autobiographical fantasy told by an unreliable narrator, this is fiction with a dose of real world cameos and nineties nostalgia for a world before the Internet. Scaffolding is a prequel to Lambert's first novel, Jet Set Desolate.
315 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2020
About the author
Andrea Lambert
12 books12 followersAndrea Lambert Fritz is the author of A Wife in Death and Life (Rochak Publishing: 2025) Angelina at the Serrano (Lost Angelene Books: 2023) Hollywood Hedgewitch (cyberwit.net, 2023) Dining with a Cursed Bloodline (Lost Angelene Books: 2021), Jet Set Desolate (Future Fiction London, 2009, and other books. Chapbooks: G(u)ilt (Los Angelene, 2011.) Lexapro Diary (Moonchaps, 2018.) Anthologies: Impact, Golden State 2017, Haunting Muses, Writing the Walls Down and elsewhere. Married with many cats.
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January 3, 2026
"Scaffolding" is part I of Andrea Lambert"s "Lena Cosentino" series.
Scaffolding" is narrated by the protagonist, Lena Cosentino. "Scaffolding" describes Lena's late teens- into early 20's, in "Scaffolding," we read about Lena's years as a colleague student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon during the second half of the 1990's.
"Scaffolding" is interesting for a number of reasons.
People who enjoy coming of age novels will find this book interesting. People who enjoy reading stories about college students and the numerous issues which they have to attempt to address on a daily basis will enjoy this book.
In "Scaffolding," the narrator/ protagonist, Lena struggles with some mental health issues, so people who enjoy reading stories in which the narrator describes struggles with mental health issues will also enjoy reading this book.
Lena was also very involved with the punk subculture of the 1990's, so people who enjoy reading books which describe the punk subculture of that era will also want to read this book.
And lastly, Andrea does an absolutely beautiful job describing certain specific neighborhoods in southeast Portland, Oregon during the 1990's. In "Scaffolding," Andrea has described the look as well as the feeling of the pace of day- to- day life in certain specific neighborhoods in southeast Portland during the 1990's more accurately than any other authors that I've read, so people who are curious to read about Portland, Oregon during the 1990's will also thoroughly enjoy reading "Scaffolding."
Scaffolding" is narrated by the protagonist, Lena Cosentino. "Scaffolding" describes Lena's late teens- into early 20's, in "Scaffolding," we read about Lena's years as a colleague student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon during the second half of the 1990's.
"Scaffolding" is interesting for a number of reasons.
People who enjoy coming of age novels will find this book interesting. People who enjoy reading stories about college students and the numerous issues which they have to attempt to address on a daily basis will enjoy this book.
In "Scaffolding," the narrator/ protagonist, Lena struggles with some mental health issues, so people who enjoy reading stories in which the narrator describes struggles with mental health issues will also enjoy reading this book.
Lena was also very involved with the punk subculture of the 1990's, so people who enjoy reading books which describe the punk subculture of that era will also want to read this book.
And lastly, Andrea does an absolutely beautiful job describing certain specific neighborhoods in southeast Portland, Oregon during the 1990's. In "Scaffolding," Andrea has described the look as well as the feeling of the pace of day- to- day life in certain specific neighborhoods in southeast Portland during the 1990's more accurately than any other authors that I've read, so people who are curious to read about Portland, Oregon during the 1990's will also thoroughly enjoy reading "Scaffolding."
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