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Sid arrives in New York City in 1995 eager to join the anarchist squatting scene. She's got a tattoo, she listens to the right bands... so why would she get a job and rent some tiny shoe-box apartment when she could take over a whole building with a gang of wild young pirates? But the Lower East Side is changing; there are no more empty buildings, the squats are cliquey and full. Sid makes her way to Brooklyn, finding a place on the waterfront occupied by a group of misfits. Determined to make a home for herself no matter what, Sid moves in...
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"Wakefield puts her knowledge of activist punk culture to great use in The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory, setting the story against a backdrop of Born Against patches and ABC No Rio matinees, building tension through contentious house meetings and showing how the scene's realities can put idealism to the test."
--Razorcake "If you know anything about New York punk culture you know at least a little about the squats in the book. Sid works at ABC No Rio, and sometimes sleeps on their roof during the summer (hands up if you remember the squatter camp up there!), she goes to C Squat, has friends at Serenity; it's a big old LES squatters party in this book."
--Maximum RocknRoll "This novel is in the realm of Ash Thayer's Kill City, and much of it is spent renovating, hauling debris, getting water, etc....Think of it as a book about a woman doing everything on her own; no money from home, and no getting by on her looks."
--Ink New York "It's an entirely new world for working stiffs everywhere. This story speeds across the squat-landscape in an urban survival tale styled with rust, grit and plenty of punk bravado. It's fast. It's funny. It's a little bit dangerous. It's totally worth the read."
--Mid-Continent Public Library "A strange and wonderful little book....Wakefield perfectly captures that time in a young person's life when everything seems possible, when we still believe that with enough courage and sacrifice the lives we imagine for ourselves can become a reality....A great book."
--Leafing Through Life "Stacy Wakefield's debut novel is a quirky intersection of the individual, society, and compromise....Wakefield's characters maximize the verve and tenacity of youth. If you're curious about what the Lower East Side and Williamsburg squatters did in their spare time (were they like you and me?), The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory is an excellent informant."
--Best New Fiction "Stacy Wakefield serves us a tough heroine in Sid; a young woman seeking a squat to call home in NYC starting in the summer of 1995."
--A Bibliophile's Reverie "[The novel is] a ton of fun and gives us a fascinating look at a subculture foreign to most of us. Some readers feel their hearts beating faster reading stories of adventure in the wild; I feel this when I read about train-hopping, squatting, urban exploration, direct action, and similar activities. Wakefield's novel scratched that itch. Check it out if you get a chance."
--David Nilsen (blog) "Stacy Wakefield reminds us again that whatever macho shit boys do, girls can do better."
--Karen O, singer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Stacy Wakefield covers a rarely documented time in American urban history--the squat movement--when crusty punks were the new pioneers. Through her unforgettable protagonist Sidney, this is a steel-toed tale of urban survival for a generation too fucked up to fit into a post-Reagan, middle-class-free America, loaded with crappy part-time jobs and fleeting temp spots. This book should serve as a stark lesson for the Airbnb trustafarians who inhabit Williamsburg today--that just two short decades ago, their delightful playground was as much a dangerous frontier as the Old West. Instead of paying with cash, you paid with sweat equity and courage, only to come home one day and find the abandoned building that you made inhabitable was just sold out from under you."
--Arthur Nersesian, author of Gladyss of the Hunt "When I finished this novel I went, No! I couldn't believe it was over so fast. I loved this book--the first that captures the soulful mystery of what drives the global-nomadic, urban-punk, musician-artist-poet squatter underground movement, carving out its future in the dystopian cities that are already here. The book's heroine is one to die for."
--V. Vale, RE/Search Publications
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--Razorcake "If you know anything about New York punk culture you know at least a little about the squats in the book. Sid works at ABC No Rio, and sometimes sleeps on their roof during the summer (hands up if you remember the squatter camp up there!), she goes to C Squat, has friends at Serenity; it's a big old LES squatters party in this book."
--Maximum RocknRoll "This novel is in the realm of Ash Thayer's Kill City, and much of it is spent renovating, hauling debris, getting water, etc....Think of it as a book about a woman doing everything on her own; no money from home, and no getting by on her looks."
--Ink New York "It's an entirely new world for working stiffs everywhere. This story speeds across the squat-landscape in an urban survival tale styled with rust, grit and plenty of punk bravado. It's fast. It's funny. It's a little bit dangerous. It's totally worth the read."
--Mid-Continent Public Library "A strange and wonderful little book....Wakefield perfectly captures that time in a young person's life when everything seems possible, when we still believe that with enough courage and sacrifice the lives we imagine for ourselves can become a reality....A great book."
--Leafing Through Life "Stacy Wakefield's debut novel is a quirky intersection of the individual, society, and compromise....Wakefield's characters maximize the verve and tenacity of youth. If you're curious about what the Lower East Side and Williamsburg squatters did in their spare time (were they like you and me?), The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory is an excellent informant."
--Best New Fiction "Stacy Wakefield serves us a tough heroine in Sid; a young woman seeking a squat to call home in NYC starting in the summer of 1995."
--A Bibliophile's Reverie "[The novel is] a ton of fun and gives us a fascinating look at a subculture foreign to most of us. Some readers feel their hearts beating faster reading stories of adventure in the wild; I feel this when I read about train-hopping, squatting, urban exploration, direct action, and similar activities. Wakefield's novel scratched that itch. Check it out if you get a chance."
--David Nilsen (blog) "Stacy Wakefield reminds us again that whatever macho shit boys do, girls can do better."
--Karen O, singer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Stacy Wakefield covers a rarely documented time in American urban history--the squat movement--when crusty punks were the new pioneers. Through her unforgettable protagonist Sidney, this is a steel-toed tale of urban survival for a generation too fucked up to fit into a post-Reagan, middle-class-free America, loaded with crappy part-time jobs and fleeting temp spots. This book should serve as a stark lesson for the Airbnb trustafarians who inhabit Williamsburg today--that just two short decades ago, their delightful playground was as much a dangerous frontier as the Old West. Instead of paying with cash, you paid with sweat equity and courage, only to come home one day and find the abandoned building that you made inhabitable was just sold out from under you."
--Arthur Nersesian, author of Gladyss of the Hunt "When I finished this novel I went, No! I couldn't believe it was over so fast. I loved this book--the first that captures the soulful mystery of what drives the global-nomadic, urban-punk, musician-artist-poet squatter underground movement, carving out its future in the dystopian cities that are already here. The book's heroine is one to die for."
--V. Vale, RE/Search Publications
Stacy Wakefield is best known for her seminal nonfiction book Not for Rent--one of the first to chronicle squatting in the modern era, and an underground classic. She is the cocreator, along with Nick Zinner of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and writer Zachary Lipez, of the photo/essay book Please Take Me Off the Guest List, and is the author of The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory.
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- Publication date2015
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