Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Playboy , Literary Hub , & The Millions "This novel is chock full of good old-fashioned glamor, seduction, and style." --Sophia June, Playboy "An artist's bohemian existence in Berlin implodes in this exquisite novel . Joseph's pitch-perfect voice propels Charli's story toward its bitter end, and her keen eye captures both the hardscrabble glamour of her characters' lives and the dark underside of a dream come true. This fierce and original narrative has the feel of a classic." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] fun and textured novel . With the urgency of these unforgettable characters, Joseph writes a fever dream about all the rusted and rare pieces of ourselves that shake loose when carried away." -- Booklist "[An] edgy, often viciously funny romp of a novel . For readers in the know, a sure thrill; for the rest, a book that can make you slightly cooler just by reading it.
" -- Kirkus Reviews " Lean Cat, Savage Cat is the book that's been missing from my reading habits: classically glamorous, timelessly seductive. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next." --Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby "In this phantasmagoric folie à deux through a Berlin thick with historical echo and epic, decadent sex, Lauren J. Joseph gives a sharp new voice to the transsexual muse, on whose devotional labor the world of culture turns." --Jeanne Thornton, author of A/S/L " Lean Cat, Savage Cat is an erotic spectacular of self-creation and spiralling disintegration: a wunderkammer of spoiling promise that combines the mounting tension of The Talented Mr. Ripley with the bleak, exquisite social comedy of Isherwood and Waugh, confirming the gimlet-eyed brilliance of Lauren J. Joseph.
" --Olivia Laing, author of The Garden Against Time "Even though I know better, Lauren J. Joseph's dangerously stylish and relentlessly sexy novel made me long for wild nights among Berlin's demi-mondaines: the glittering chaos, the glamour of bad decisions, the drugs and clubs and would-be Bowies with their would-be Romy Haags. I was completely delighted and impressed by the level of filth!" --Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl "No one is doing it like Lauren, a cool old soul with a refreshingly original sensibility. With its sexy humor, relentless pacing, and enchanting balance of silly and sinister, Lean Cat, Savage Cat is (in appropriately cinematic terms) a screwball noir that deserves your full attention." --Davey Davis, author of X and Casanova 20: Or, Hot World "Lauren J. Joseph's sharp wit and tantalizing storytelling carried me deep into Berlin's alluring and chaotic nightlife. A glamourous, seductive novel about obsession, self-destruction, and, ultimately, self-discovery." --Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star.