{"product_id":"maiden-by-cynthia-buchanan-10-27-26","title":"Maiden by Cynthia Buchanan (10\/27\/26)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mainContent___KncIm\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"title-references-tabpanel-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root css-old1by\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**PREORDER TODAY - ON SALE - OCTOBER 27, 2026**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thirty-year-old virgin embarks on a quest to find true love in this rediscovered post-modern tragicomedy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“She was a virgin and her virginity had burrowed in. . . . the idea of sex had such a grip on her that she tried to avoid, totally, thinking about sex.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCynthia Buchanan’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaiden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas a sensation when it was published in 1972, earning comparisons to the generation-defining novels of Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion. More than fifty years later, it remains a startlingly contemporary, highly stylish satire of heterosexual romance and the sex-and-drug-addled California of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-year-old Fortune Dundy is not ready to give up on finding her one true love. Unencumbered by experience or social grace, she pursues romance through endless date-matching questionnaires and personal ads, a virginal Don Quixote in rhinestones and sequins. Her only confidant is Bert, named for the real-life host of the televised Miss America pageant, who lives in her head and offers commentary on her every disastrous interaction with the opposite sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA flyer for a swinging singles apartment complex named Villa Dionysus beckons Fortune to Southern California, where she hopes to find love amid the sand and suntan oil. She meets a slew of desperate characters—including her roommate Biscuit, an embittered divorcee with a psychotic jealous streak; Milo, Biscuit’s boorish new boyfriend; and Skip, a handsome and elusive dentist—who become ensnared in her quest for the Right One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA glitter-and-blood tragicomedy as audacious as Eve Babitz’s boozy stories of California malaise, written at a time when postmodern fiction was considered the province of male writers,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaiden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a true American literary original, and Fortune Dundy one of literature’s most lovable antiheroines: hopeful, delusional, and absolutely unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53473512948012,"sku":"9781965028063","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/maiden.jpg?v=1785259741","url":"https:\/\/goldenhourbookstore.com\/products\/maiden-by-cynthia-buchanan-10-27-26","provider":"Golden Hour Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}