The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editorâ€™s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a â€œrivetingâ€¦and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apartâ€ (Cosmopolitan).

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. While Carolyn struggled to fit in, Ashley quickly became a hot girl: popular, extroverted, and sexually precocious.

After high school, Carolyn entered college in New York City and Ashley ended up in Los Angeles, where she quit school to work as a stripper and an escort, dating actors and older men, and experimenting with drugs. The last time Ashley visited New York, Carolyn was shocked by how they had grown apart. One year later, Ashley was stabbed to death at age twenty-two in her Hollywood home.

â€œOriginal and engagingâ€ (Kirkus Reviews), The Hot One is the story of Carolynâ€™s emotional quest to find out what really happened to her oldest friend. Itâ€™s a journey that takes her through the hills of Hollywood, into courtrooms in Los Angeles, to strip clubs in Las Vegas, and back to her own childhood memories as she tries to unravel why she and Ashley became so different. How did Ashley end up the overtly sexual risk-takerâ€”the hot oneâ€”while Carolyn was seen as the smart one, the observer? Carolynâ€™s â€œmemoir will shock and fascinateâ€ (Booklist) readers as she explores the power of female friendships and pays tribute to the ones that stay with you long after theyâ€™re gone.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-08-01
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-08-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder

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