Jes­si­ca Anya Blau is the author of the nation­al­ly best­selling nov­el The Sum­mer of Naked Swim Par­ties and three oth­er crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed nov­els, most recent­ly The Trou­ble With Lex­ie. Her nov­els have been rec­om­mend­ed and fea­tured on CNN, NPR, The Today Show and in Van­i­ty Fair, Cos­mo, Oprah’s Sum­mer Reads, and many oth­er nation­al mag­a­zines and newspapers.