So my totally insane and brilliant 19 year old cousin, Alessandra has edited quite the masterpiece, renowned tattoo artist Johnathan Shaw’s latest book” Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes”. Alessandra is a very gifted writer herself, I remember when me and her were sleeping on the floor of her father’s tiny downtown apartment half drunk I was yelling at her to write a book already, that she was talented and fucked up enough to do whatever the hell she wanted. I don’t know if it was my kick in her ass, or her own neurotic self determination ( which it was) but she moved to L.A when she was 18, cleaned up her act in a big way- and is now a professional writer and editor for Jonathan Shaw, writes a style column for the L.A Times, and has worked with the likes of Johnny Depp. Alessandra has already turned down a book deal from Vice, waiting for the right deal to come along (which it will), with her expensive taste and in your face style of writing expect to be hearing of my gifted younger cousin very soon. Basically Alessandra kicks ass and so does “Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes”, Buy it and Read it!!

Above is Alessandra ( I give her so much shit for smoking cigarettes, but this is a great photo so I’ll let it slide)

Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes is renowned tattoo artist Jonathan Shaw’s latest and most shockingly in-your-face leap into the world of outlaw literature. Set in the hot urban sprawl of Rio de Janeiro, Shaw’s story follows the twisted love affair between a middle-aged gypsy and the beautifully manipulative and insane young prostitute, Narcisa, with hilarious, poignant and often tragic detail. Recounted in three years of diary entries, Shaw’s character navigates the teeming slums and lice-infested flop houses of Rio and stumbles along a secret passage to enlightenment at the hands of a gyrating Buddhist Dakini. Through this darkly hilarious litany of doomed love, drug addiction, compulsive sex and mutual enslavement, Shaw proves that it is possible to follow your heart and never once be degraded by self pity. Inspired by real-life experience, Narcisa is bound to be an underground classic

Buy a copy now at Heart Worm Press

“Jonathan Shaw is the great nightmare anti-hero of the new age.” – Iggy Pop

“Shaw, a legendary tattoo artist, former friend of Charles Manson and current friend of Marilyn Manson, has woven a vicious stack of pages together about a drug addled maniac of a Brazilian Prostitute that is sure to tighten the sack of many a jaded man…” -VICE

“If Hubert Selby Jr., Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neil Cassady, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the Marquis de Sade, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Edward Teach, Charley Parker, Iggy Pop, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, R. Crumb, Robert Williams, Joe Coleman, Dashiell Hammett, E.M. Cioran and all of the Three Stooges had all been involved in some greasy, shameful, evil whorehouse orgy, Jonathan Shaw would surely be its diabolical, reprobate spawn”. -Johnny Depp

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