Coyote — Lynn Vannucci

It's 1986... Mickey Azzi is a soap opera star living in Los Angeles. But she still hasn't gotten over an affair she had years before, when she was a student living in New York. The affair was with one of her professors, Coyote. In Mickey's nineteen-year-old eyes, he was everything: older, worldly, accomplished, devastatingly handsome.But married.In a series of flashbacks, Mickey remembers the roller-coaster ride that was her year with Coyote. Along the way, we meet her father--a real prick--and Katie, Mickey's pleasantly cynical older friend who can read her mind.But teenagers grow up, married men lie, and now twenty-four-year-old Mickey needs to resolve a few questions that linger over her year of frustrated love.Originally published in 1986 by Bantam New Fiction, Publisher's Weekly called it an appealing, fast-paced story.