Prairie Oyster

"Description: I could tell you everything I drank and it wouldn't tell you anything. Pearl is a thirty-something filmmaker with a drug and alcohol problem, balanced precariously on the edge of a breakdown. But when she is invited to interview her idol and crush, lesbian cult filmmaker Mitch Meyer, her stilted life is quickly upended. Buoyed and seduced by their interest in her and her work, Pearl resolves to get sober and join Mitch for a summer in New York, while researching the project she has been toying with for years: a film about Veronica Lake, a 1940s film star who drank herself into oblivion. As Pearl investigates Veronica's life, obsessions and addictions, it seems that the two women's stories are running in parallel. With Mitch alternately attentive and then cold, Pearl starts to come undone: is she simply swapping one addiction for another? When the lines between Pearl and Veronica's lives start to blur, it becomes increasingly clear how alone Pearl really is, and how much she still has to lose. Through the lives and loves of Pearl and Veronica, echoing each other across three countries, three generations and a hundred years of cinema, Prairie Oyster explores what the cost of wanting too much can be"-- Provided by publisher.