Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to New York City, from dyke bars to telemarketing outfits, casinos to free clinics. With the signature poet's voice that has won her awards and acclaim, Ali Liebegott investigates the conjoined hearts of hope and addiction in an unforgettable story of what it means to be young and broke in America.
"Cha-Ching! Is an addiction story without recourse to self-help and redemption. It's a romance built not from exchanging vows, but traumas, drugs, and fluids. You had me at puke on my sheets. The characters are always making something out of nothing, a dime into a jackpot, a shitty apartment into a home, a blank sky into a declaration of love. It's gruesome. It's hilarious. It'd make a puppet out
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, HTML Giant
"Cha-Ching! Is a rare novel, a smart page-turner which honestly delves deep into the screwed-up heart of one young working-class dyke. At a moment when novels about social outcasts and the downwardly mobile are rarely published, Liebegott has hit a home run with this tender, funny, and moving book, which examines the profound difficulties of being young and gay, and carving out a new home in an in
Jeff Miller, Cult Montreal
"Liebegott writes with easy-going, straightforward style and without a whiff of pretension. Set in depressing casinos and grimy apartments, Cha-Ching! Is a suprisingly optimistic, sweetly funny tale, and Theo isa heroine you might have more in common with than you think."
