The Thrown-Away Kids

Book excerpt: New Yorkers are different. They're special people, raised in the concrete jungle with thick skin. In Thrown Away Kids, Carol is a tough girl who's lived a tough life. Following her across the boroughs from childhood into her adult years, readers get up close and personal in Carol's exciting, sometimes dark, adventurous life. She experiments, learns new things, makes mistakes and throughout it all, has good jobs. She figures it out and wonders how, maybe, her family life made her into the person she becomes. In a tantalizing, sexual account of life for an urban woman, Thrown Away Kids never lets up as it follows a young woman navigate the most intimate parts and secret details of life.