A Cigarette Lit Backwards, Tea HacicVlahovic
A Cigarette Lit Backwards, Tea HacicVlahovic
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A Cigarette Lit Backwards

Author: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Narrator: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance

Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others.

Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest audiobook about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a story that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra on August 13, 2022

Kat, like most teens, wants to fit in, she wants to be accepted, she wants to be cool. She wants the North Carolina Punks to accept her and while backstage at a punk show, she meets a photojournalist and that as they say, is history. Soon thereafter, her name is out there. She has achieved status, bu......more

Goodreads review by zoe on July 10, 2022

I definitely am a bit biased as to why I enjoyed this book so much. I live in the city where this book is set, and I have actually been to many of the locations mentioned in the story. So, I really enjoyed getting to read about specific malls and concert locations that I have personally been to. How......more

Goodreads review by Clarissa on August 21, 2022

A Cigarette Lit Backwards (sidenote: i love this title) follows sixteen-year old Kat as she struggles to find acceptance in the punk scene of the early 2000s - and exactly what the spiral for acceptance looks like. And I use spiral literally, because once she goes backstage and meets a rockstar and......more