The jury's still out on when the 20th century ends. 2000? 2001? Some say it happened the day Sinatra died. But author Eurydice finds its ending in a mood of discovery. At once a voyeur, skeptic, and seeker, she reports on the national passion for those hardy American perennials - sex and personal growth - with intelligence and humor.
In Satyricon USA, Eurydice travels to 10 cities and creates a disturbing, edgy, erudite portrait of the nation's sexual mores at century's end. Eurydice takes a "rite-of-passage road trip through America," interviewing housewives, students, bankers, and transvestites. She unearths a sexual America profoundly inventive, sadly repressed, but more normal than she envisioned. From observance of bloodletting rites in San Francisco to her encounter with a cyberlover in Memphis, she hears the thrum of passion in a range of shattering, surprising ways.
Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier by Eurydice: $22. Scribner: +1 (212) 698 7000.
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