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“Absolutely Golden encapsulates everything that is sexy, irreverent, absurdist, and hilarious about America. It’s a mid-life check-in, a stripped examination of identity, a self- and social transformation. D. Foy is an American hero–or should I say, anti-hero–and this book is for all of us, all of you, even as it is wholly and singularly his own. It will slay you. There is no other like it.” -Sarah Gerard
“D. Foy has a profound understanding of both the human tragicomedy and the eternal tension between the yin and yang of carnal desire and the whip-cracking superego. His narrator Rachel, a 38-year-old schoolteacher and widow, is a funny, effortlessly likeable character who wants to believe in other people’s goodness but knows not to trust appearances, especially when stumbling through her stay at a nudist colony with a ne’er-do-well boyfriend and his stripper ‘cousin.’ Absolutely Golden is a wholly original novel full of extraordinary, richly-drawn characters who find themselves in–no surprise–supremely memorable situations.” -Christine Sneed
“Absolutely Golden absolutely captures the hairy salaciousness of the 1970s in a tight, beautifully-rendered little package. Gyrating seamlessly between the hilarious and profound, D. Foy’s prose never falters, and the Vaseline-smeared lens he directs onto the subculture of naturism at its peak is at once unsparing and wonderfully doting. I love this book.” -Augustus Rose
“Imagine that Virginia Woolf fell asleep reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream and called up a fizzy time and place that didn’t yet exist: 1970s California. In Absolutely Golden, D. Foy–on whose sentences we can stake our lives–has distilled pure, mind-blowing enchantment.” -Nelly Reifler
“Absolutely Golden is a luscious, chewy journey through the hopes and deceptions of 1970s alt-America. Its bawdy characters will enchant you; the vitality of D. Foy’s prose will make you weep. He is one of the most urgent and original fiction writers working today, and to read him is a reminder to keep dreaming out of bounds.” –Courtney Maum