Sublime

a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but

nisei

In the dormitories, she’d been surrounded by the relentlessly ambitious, but in that West Hollywood apartment building, all of the neighbors she met were people whose dreams of fame had already been dashed. Cinematographers working at Kodak stores, screenwriters teaching English to immigrants, actors starring in burlesque shows in seedy bars. The p

acrimony.

Jacaranda managed to stay fairly broke by paying her father back the quarter of a million dollars she figured she owed him.

She made enough money to get her own West Hollywood apartment, gas, and drugs, and not have to be in a regular office where they expected her to wear shoes.

She began feeling an even finer-tuned rage against material East Coast diamondy objects.