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Book Synopsis• Stories about HIV, sex and relationships, addiction, recovery, family, class—told with street-smart humor. • From Poz magazine cover story, 1998 fiction issue : “Carter, the bad girl in the celebrated Roiphe literary clan (Carter is her middle name—she dropped the Roiphe) was born in 1960 to writer Anne Roiphe, whose 1970 novel Up the Sandbox was made into a movie starring Barbra Streisand . . . Both Emily’s sister and her mother have used parts of her biography in their own writing. Ten years younger than Emily, Kate Roiphe earned a PhD in English from Princeton University, contributed articiles to Harper’s, Esquire, and The New York Times, and then made a national stir wiith her first book, The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism. . . . Roiphe followed up her success with her 1997 current affairs book, Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at Century’s End.”
