Silver Medal, Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards
Finalist, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
Finalist, Foreword Indie Book of the Year
In 1977, a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54 discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s – and decades later, having burned bridges with them both, tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ‘n’ roll history.
“Hilarious … Readers will be hooked by this tragicomic romp.”
— Publishers Weekly
“VERDICT: Recommend to readers who liked Daisy Jones and the Six, people who enjoy challenging novels like Lolita, and fans of 1970s historical fiction.”
— Library Journal
“Last Night at the Disco is a comic gem.”
— Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and Tracy Flick Can’t Win
“A propulsive, funny, and genuinely insightful rock and roll novel with a disco beat.”
— Stephen McCauley, author of My Ex-Life and You Only Call When You’re in Trouble
“A wild and hilarious romp of a book…”
— Whitney Scharer, author of The Age Of Light
“A deliciously deranged cri de coeur.”
— Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
“[A] reliably hilarious satirist.”
— Oldster magazine
Lisa Borders is the author of three novels: Last Night at the Disco, published in 2025 and a finalist for the Foreword Indie Book of the Year in Humor; The Fifty-First State; and Cloud Cuckoo Land, chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award and a 2003 Massachusetts Book Awards honoree.
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