My Life on Craigslist: A Novel, 2012 Edition

Craigslist can be a real sharkfest.

Alexandra Ares created an unputdownable, soulful satire of today's wildest mores unabashedly unleashed on America's fifth largest website. Casualty of the financial crisis, alone and broke, a New York girl starts to live vicariously through America's most insane website where she runs into big trouble.

Meet Emily Thompson, 25, quirky, wholesome, with a keen eye for contemporary art. One year after she moves from Buffalo to the trendy East Village, where she lands a job in an art gallery and an artist boyfriend, her life is turned upside down when she loses everything. Alone, depressed and with nothing, she turns to Craigslist to find - for free - everything she needs for survival: roommates, jobs, and dates. She soon discovers a wild, flawed world where everyone is either the con or the conned, and decency has flown both the laptop and the desktop. A roommate who is rarely home, turns out to be an escort, which makes Emily get on her high moral horse, but later, when Emily herself becomes an escort for a day things spiral out of control...

With her razor-sharp wit and trademark quirky, unconventional insights, Alexandra Ares delivers a fast-paced, rakishly entertaining, and ingeniously plotted gem that confirms her status as one of the hottest independent writers around.

My life on Craigslist was translated in Europe in 2012 where it has been a top 10 best seller in the E-book category for over 20 weeks.