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by Sarah Reith
by Sarah Reith
Isobel Reinhardt is a hot mess. The daughter of a wire-walker turned federal fugitive and a high-end sex worker who likes to call herself a feminist, Isobel has failed decisively at everything she’s put her hand to. So she comes to Mendocino County to grow pot for a woman who knows all her family secrets.
When she narrowly escapes arrest while delivering pot for Alizarin, Isobel does a quick risk assessment and decides it’s time to get a legitimate job. Without a marketable skill set or a well-developed resume, she jumps at the opportunity to be one of two live-in caregivers for a dying German woman.
As death and madness converge in a lonely country house at the end of a long dirt road, Isobel realizes the role of ferocity and beauty in her life.
“A Schedule of Drugs in the Valley of Death is one of those books you can read fast, but will wish you hadn’t when you finish it too soon.” — Jonathan Middlebrook, Review, The Ukiah Daily Journal
"Sarah Reith has written a bildungsroman for the ages. Deploying razor-sharp wit, trenchant observations, and poignant encounters, she details a young woman's struggle to find herself amid a ragged crew of dope-growers, cultists, drop-outs, and one self-professed feminist prostitute who happens to be her mother . . . a wild ride through the California counterculture and through one woman's soul." — R. Werdinger, Amazon review
"Like a carnival ride, Reith slaps us in the seat, fastens the belt and takes us on a wild ride! If you're looking for adventure read this book. Need to escape the holidays, daily routine, or a respite from global warming and impeachment? Get this book. Yep, crank up the heating pad and grab the oreos because you won't be done till morning. Get it, read it, then give it." — Amazon review
“Mendocino County author’s first novel published” — By Grace Woelbing, The Ukiah Daily Journal
Details
Details
Bink Books
240 pp. ● 5.5×8.5
$14.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-945805-62-2 (pb)
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / Small Town & Rural
FICTION / Family Life / General
Publication date: July 2018
Sarah Reith was born into a circus family in San Francisco, and ran away to join the army as soon as she turned 18. She was a parachute rigger at the jump school on Fort Benning, Georgia, where one of her incidental duties was “wind dummy,” or jumping out of an airplane ahead of a class of airborne students so the instructors could check the wind conditions. After concluding that life as a dummy lacked intellectual stimulation, she used her GI Bill to earn a BA in creative writing at Mills College for women. She worked as a bike messenger and a barista for some years before going back to school in Germany. She studied for her MA in German literature in the shadow of a medieval castle, burying her nose in little yellow volumes with very dense print and lots of umlauts. She is currently a reporter in Mendocino County, working on her second novel.
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