Escape From Houdini Mountain. Pleasant Gehman

From glittering debauched nights of 1980s Hollywood («Escape from Houdini Mountain») to the festering bowels of New York's Lower East Side («Must Have Been Love»), these 26 mind-bending tales chronicle a young woman's quest for romantic adventure. Infectiously entertaining, Escape from Houdini Mountain is a rollicking ride of a read with resonance.