About the Author

INGRID RUDEFORS was raised in Stockholm, but left for New York as soon as she finished high school. A veteran of the downtown club scene, she worked in film production for many years in New York. On returning to Sweden to raise her daughter, she continued her film career and has written and directed several award-winning short films, as well as three feature length screenplays, with support from the Swedish Film Institute. She served for eight years as the Film Commissioner in Stockholm and now lives in Manhattan again.

Reviews

"This wonderful tale unfolds in a New York that differs from the one we see in fancy travel logs. This is a dirty, worn city peppered with small bars, sewing sweatshops, mafia bosses and retired transvestites. The story is both fun and fast-paced, yet underlining it all are the great, anguished questions: How do we wind up where we wind up? Don't things get any better than this?" Literature Magasinet [review of Swedish edition] "Rudefors writes Alice as a sort of female, middle-aged Holden Caulfield--the disorientated drone in JD Salinger's seminal The Catcher in the Rye--only sixty years later and in an ornate Chinatown." Helsingborgs Dagblad[review of Swedish edition] "This fast-paced story will make you laugh. You simply do not want it to end. " Bibliotekstj�nsts[The Swedish Library Service Review, review of Swedish edition]