Sarah

A Novel

By: Laura Albert, J. T. LeRoy, Billy Corgan

Narrated by: Winsome Brown, Leigh Ledare

A reissue of the national best-selling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story.

Sarah never admits that she’s his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard”: a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather miniskirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young “Cherry Vanilla” embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint - and then being denounced as the devil.

By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.

©2000, 2016 JT LeRoy (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Never Been So Happy To Find A Novel on Audible!

this book captivated me when I was in my 20s. I'm fascinated how different lives can take you on a completely different path, and, if you just take the time, you can see so many perspectives through stories; both real and imagined.

this story affected me deeply. Such a bittersweet beauty, and a wonderful sense of humor; this is a world you may have not experienced but a world that can enchant you if you are open to seeing the childlike innocence and longing of a lot lizard with so much love in their hearts and aching for some meaning in the depths of debauchery. Hope and the need for deep meaning is stronger than you can imagine, no matter how dark the situation.

West Virginia seen from different eyes

Very few people know the seedy underbelly of the truck stops of WVA. Sarah let’s you look inside the lot lizard lifestyle like never before. Truly an amazing read.

Great but unexpected story

Great story about a child who looks up and takes off on an adventure to be just like their mom. Unfortunately they realize that their mom's life wasn't as grand as she thought out to be.

Really Great book & the narrator did a phenomenal job

This book has been on my list to read for years. Its a fabulous book & the narrator did such a Wonderful job. I wish the book didn’t end though & think the ending could of been better.. But over all ~ it was even better then I anticipated. I can totally see why this book is being turned into a movie. Super impressed that a biological women could write such vivid details of being transgender. Fabulous lgbtq+ book..!

What a steal.

This book was free and strongly recommended to me, and I could not believe how good the story was. So beautifully detailed, and I appreciated every single Southern catch phrase. The performance of the reader was also astonishing, she captured ever character so very well. Definitely one of my favorite books now. Wonderful.