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Evie Austin, native of Hatteras Island, North Carolina, might be the baddest girl on the planet. Her life has seen several detours―career snafus, bad romantic choices, a loved but unplanned child―not to mention her ill-advised lifelong obsession with boxer Mike Tyson. When life’s changes smash over her like the rough surf of the local shoreline, she muddles through―until that moment of loss and longing when muddling will no longer suffice.
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"The Baddest Girl on the Planet is set on an island known as “The Graveyard of the Atlantic” for all the shipwrecks it’s caused, which feels just right: the novel is about, among other things, the islands—both literal and metaphorical—where we feel stranded; the wrecks we cause or find ourselves marooned by. In The Baddest Girl on the Planet, Heather Frese explores some of the most tender spots of what it is to be human: how to come to terms with our choices, how to grow and change in a place that seems to want us to stay the same, and what it means to call a place (or another person) home." |
"Heather Frese has written a coming-of-age story like no other—with a fiercely original narrative voice that's funny, brave, honest, and occasionally terrifying . . . in fact, compulsively readable!" |