Sporting Guide

Liz Goldwyn vividly recreates late 19th-century Los Angeles, a tumultuous city of dreamers, outlaws, and power struggles, through interconnected stories centered on its colorful characters, including pimps, prostitutes, politicians, and entrepreneurs. Drawing from original research and historical archives, she offers a glimpse into a world where wealth and vice intertwined, exploring the lives behind the city's notorious bordellos and shadowy dealings. Through these fictional narratives and historical details, the audiobook brings to life a lost era of LA's gritty, on-the-margins past.