In the Cut

About this book

Living alone in New York Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia n. vagina; snapper n. vagina; brasole n. vagina. One evening at a bar she stumbles upon a man his face in shadow a tattoon on his wrist a woman kneeling between his legs. A week later a detective shows up at her door. The womans body has been discovered in the park across the street. Soon Frannie is propelled into a sexual liaison that tests the limits of her safety and desires as she begins a terrifying descent into the dark places that reside deep within her.