Prairie Oyster

Pearl is a thirty-something filmmaker balanced precariously on the edge of an addiction-fueled breakdown. But when she is invited to interview her idol and crush, lesbian cult filmmaker Mitch Meyer, her stilted life restarts.

Buoyed and seduced by Mitch's interest in her and her work, Pearl swaps alcoholism for romantic obsession and London for a summer in New York with Mitch. All the while she is haunted by a project she has been toying with for years: a film about Veronica Lake, a 1940s film star who drank herself into obscurity.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 10/06/2026
ISBN: 9781685971151
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00lbs

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/03/2026