<DIV><p><B>Winner of the 2005 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction.</B></p><p>"<I>The Beautifully Worthless</I> is an outrageous act of kindness."?<B>Eileen Myles</B></p><p>"She's insanely talented, it's mad. <I>The Beautifully Worthless</I> crisscrosses the USA, like <I>Close to the Knives</I>, like Kerouac, desperately seeking out everything occluded and driven, a frenzy of seeking frozen into poetry."<B>?Kevin Killian</B></p><p>A runaway waitress leaves her lover, grabs her dog, and hits the highway. Ali Liebegott maps her travels in a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the girl she left behind, and some of the most exquisite poetry written about love, heartache, and madness.</p><BR></DIV>