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In a culture where sipping "rosé all day" is seen as the epitome of relaxation, "grabbing a drink" the only way to network; and meeting at a bar the quintessential "first date", many of us are left wondering if drinking alcohol really is the only way to cultivate joy and connection in life. Jardine Libaire and Amanda Eyre Ward wanted to live spontaneous and luxurious lives, to escape the ordinary and enjoy the intoxicating. Their drinking, however, had started to numb them to the present moment instead of unlocking it.

Vier Außenseiter auf der Flucht: Staci, Ray, Ernie und Coral hauen mit geklautem Drogengeld ab nach Texas, wo sie in einem abgelegenen Haus etwas finden, das sie nie zu träumen gewagt hätten: Zugehörigkeit, Vertrauen und Liebe. Und je länger sie in dieser vom Schicksal zusammengewürfelten Gemeinschaft leben, desto mehr wächst jede und jeder über sich hinaus. Doch die Tage ihres zerbrechlichen Glücks sind schon lange gezählt.

Sie suchen nach Klarheit und Bewusstheit, aber Askese ist Ihnen zu anstrengend? Sie lieben das Abenteuer, und jeder Tag soll zählen? Sie möchten das Leben in seiner Fülle auskosten und den Moment in vollen Zügen genießen? Schlagen Sie dieses Buch auf, und tauchen Sie ein in einen Kosmos, in dem weniger mehr ist: weniger Alkohol, mehr Hier und Jetzt, mehr Rock ’n’ Roll.

Lee is at a tender and dangerous breaking point: she's not a kid anymore but still acting like one. She wants to be an artist, but her rent-paying Soho restaurant job has taken over, and the late nights at strip clubs and after-hours joints have gone from joyful and crazy to just plain crazy. She's not alone among the chaotic souls of late-90s Williamsburg, Brooklyn - we root for her to grow up but she avoids reality, burying her fears in vintage Dior dresses, bad cocaine, cheeseburgers, and whiskey.

When Elise Perez meets Jamey Hyde on a desolate winter afternoon, fate implodes, and neither of their lives will ever be the same. Although they are next-door neighbors in New Haven, they come from different worlds. Elise grew up in a housing project without a father and didn't graduate from high school; Jamey is a junior at Yale, heir to a private investment bank fortune and beholden to high family expectations.

It’s springtime in Oklahoma, and Ernie, an outcast in a group of outcasts, feels uneasy. Nerves at the abandoned summer camp where he and his fellow oddballs are crashing have been on edge since the arrival of a teenager named Coral, unceremoniously dropped off from her family’s minivan one afternoon. Adding to her aura of mystery, Coral doesn’t say a word. Ever.