Miraculous Books

Hollywood in 1969 is everything it’s cracked up to be – sex, drugs, rock’n’roll – and more. Sean Allison Hayes is seventeen and she’s already seen enough. Just before her film debut is about to be released, she runs away to Mexico in search of Frank, her very first lover. Frank has disappeared, with a flimsy plan at best. Sean has no idea if he’s near the ocean or in the mountains of Chiapas. Joining a small circus is the perfect way to travel, even if it means getting lost in a world of drum rolls and lions and having knives thrown at her for a living. True love isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and deep in the jungle, after facing a loaded machine gun in the hands of her rival, while riding on the back of her favorite elephant, Sean sees a total eclipse of the sun, and finds something much bigger than romance.

“A woman’s got to follow her heart,” says Sean, the narrator of Elephant Milk, a novel of growing up, empowerment and wonder. In Sean’s journey Diane Sherry Case has produced a pitch-perfect depiction of the desperation and hopefulness of being young, attractive, and distraught, not just in the glory days of rock and roll, but forever. —Jim Krusoe, Erased Diane Sherry Case always surprises in this lyrical, edgy, and often surreal tale. In a world where love is a circus full of beasts and flying knives, you may find yourself in the strangest places, in the strangest of ways. - Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels