Book Synopsis
It's the mid-nineties, and twenty-something, schizophrenic, Croatian-American Lucy has just returned to her home in Queens, New York from her latest suicide attempt. Taken care of by her gay twin brother Roman and looked after by her over-bearing mother obsessed with marriage and an oblivious father, she observes her friends and neighbors in their expression of love and sexuality, or lack thereof. Through bouts of mental illness, sexual misadventure, speedos, gay sex, and šljivovica, Lucy learns what it means to be a woman in modern society, all in the midst of the Yugoslav Wars.