Description
The Roxy Letters is a hilarious and heartwarming novel told through the letters that the charming and hapless Roxy, a 28-year old Austinite, sends to her ex-boyfriend (and roommate) Everett. Roxy is underemployed, sexually frustrated, and uninspired. Tired of her job as a deli maid at the original Whole Foods, Roxy daydreams of breaking out of her funk and finding a job that will get her creative juices flowing. She also wouldn't mind finding love and finding herself off the brink of financial ruin--a place she's found herself thanks to her ever-daunting mortgage and the late rent payments of her roommate-slash-ex-boyfriend, Everett. On top of it all, gentrification is slowly changing her beloved Austin in new and evilly corporate ways. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of 6th and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy finds that she can stay silent no longer. Encouraged by her ex-deli counter comrade Annie--now assistant to the Whole Foods CEO and planning an animal rights revolution from the inside--and her new friend Artemis, a vivacious and mercurial maneater with a string of personas and paramours all over town, Roxy decides to take action. What starts as a protest against the gentrification of Austin sets Roxy down a path of purpose, arrest, good sex, love, and self-discovery.