The Hard Crowd - Essays 2000-2020 9780141345154 Fifteen years old and blazing

Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life

The girl that shouldn't be there

but also several others children—including Chen

In this unsparing family history

The Hard Crowd - Essays 2000-2020 9780141345154 Fifteen years old and blazingRachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct' (John Powers, Fresh Air). In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times and illuminates the themes and real life terrain that underpin her fiction. In nineteen razor sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism,