Katia Noyes

A novel

Cover of Crashing America by Katia Noyes

Crashing America

A story about a genderqueer runaway looking for the love she’s never known.

A novel by Katia Noyes · 2005

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The book in the world

Publication!

After years of work on the book, it was tremendously rewarding to start seeing the galleys and begin to believe that Crashing America would really get out into the world. I did fifty appearances—panels, university classes, bookstores, conferences, bars, you name it. It was a very exciting year of readings and conversations. Perhaps my favorite part was going out with other authors afterward and finally joining the club of published authors. At fifty!

Katia Noyes reading from Crashing America at a microphone
Reading from Crashing America
Lotus the cat nestled among books
Lotus, among the books
First page of blurbs from the original edition of Crashing America
From the original 2005 edition
“I love this writer. She’s animal royalty. Her brain has teeth.”— Eileen Myles
author of Cool for You
“A rare, daring, and poignant novel, fueled by intelligence and skill, hungry for illumination, and written in the unmistakable dialect of blood.”— Kate Braverman
author of Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir
“Noyes takes us on a fearless queer adventure, using a dashing slangy language all her own.”— Michelle Tea
author of Rent Girl