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This title in other editionsBorderlines: A Memoirby Caroline Kraus
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered, upper-middle-class home in St. Louis for San Francisco following the death of her mother, she is searching for clarity and a fresh perspective to help her escape her mothers ghost. Instead, in a dreamlike city of beatnik bookstores and coffeehouses, she meets Jane.
Bewitching and free-spirited, Jane offers Caroline the warmth, intuitive understanding, and female companionship she craves, and soon the two women are inseparable. But gradually, Caroline discovers that behind the intensity that makes the friendship so intoxicating lies a dangerous, symbiotic stranglehold. As their lives and psyches become evermore intertwined, Jane begins to reveal some disturbing qualities and pulls Caroline further into her troubled depths. And as her subtle manipulations blossom into emotional blackmail, financial ruin, alarming promiscuity, and ultimately, physical aggression, Caroline must fight to regain her sense of self, and her understanding of where Jane ends and she begins. Mesmerizing and unforgettable, Borderlines is an extraordinary literary debut that offers an unflinching look at the potent dynamics beneath the surface of any intimate relationship—and at the darker side of friendships between women. Synopsis:When Caroline Kraus leaves behind her sheltered life in St. Louis for San Francisco, she is searching for a fresh perspective to help her escape her mother's ghost. In exquisite, crisp prose, "Borderlines" distills Kraus's terrifying experience into a chilling, mesmerizing memoir that will hold readers captive until the last page.
About the Author36-year-old CAROLINE KRAUS graduated with a bachelors degree from William and Mary and, shortly afterward, moved to San Francisco, where she was a bookseller and author event photographer. When she returned to the east coast, she earned a Masters in screen writing and film editing at the New School and worked as a documentary film researcher. She spent summers at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where her first fiction and non-fiction stories were born. Most recently, she was the managing editor of a berkeley-based neuroscience publication called brainconnection.com, and the Senior Arts and Science Editor for Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago. She lives in Evanston, IL.
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