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Crashing America A Novel (Alyson Books, 2005) "I thought I had left road trip novels behind with adolescence, but Katia Noyes's Crashing America proved a revelation. This road trip is in reverse. A San Francisco gutterpunk travels east to the heartland, the Great Plains. Girl, the narrator, would give Kerouac a run for his money. She has the feel of authenticity whether stealing a car or expressing delight at the neve ending flatness of Nebraska. Noyes's story and characters are fresh, tough, and, well, somehow sweet." "It's like if Janis Joplin wrote a novel and didn't die on us, but sang the whole damn thing. I love this writer. She's animal royalty. Her brain has teeth. In this book she makes the people talk, the bus driver, even. It's old human stuff, Chaucer, even, Francois Villon, that's right. But always as never before the writer is a brave dirty girl. The earth is her place, yet she loves the stars. It's to live, this book."
"In our times of rigid red or blue identities, Noyes’ mashup of bohemian and rural offers refreshingly complex shades." "A sweet-tough novel that is surprisingly philosophical about questions of identity - what makes us who we are and what determines our place in the world." "Crashing America gives us a misfit's view of the American landscape, a gorgeous and lonely place populated by Christian punks, lonesome housewives, tweaking teenagers, and corn farmers. Best of all, it stars a tough-talking vagabonding starry-eyed thieving innocent named Girl. She takes us on a fearless queer adventure, using a dashing slangy language all her own."
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