Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"Wakefield wrote an intrepid nonfiction book about modern squatting, Not for Rent (1996), and now vividly fictionalizes the experience, portraying various oddball characters in her charmingly laid-back, dialogue-rich first novel with empathy and insight."–Booklist"Wakefield…draws on personal experience for this colorful and entertaining depiction....the sentiment of the nomadic community in New York in the...
