Books by Vanda Mikoloski
Wild lives. Hard truths. Strange gods. Bad decisions. Good sentences.
Tap Dancing for Daddy
A memoir of survival, shame, comedy, and the strange business of becoming free.
Tap Dancing for Daddy is Vanda Mikoloski's darkly funny memoir about family, grief, 1977 New York, sex work, survival, shame, and the strange miracle of finding a voice after losing yourself.
At 18, Vanda ran away from boarding school into the worst, brightest, dirtiest version of New York City. What followed was dangerous, absurd, humiliating, funny, heartbreaking, and ultimately clarifying.
This is not a victim memoir. It is a book about what happens when a woman refuses to let the worst parts of her life have the final word.
"Brilliant, terrifying and hilarious."
"Vanda has reached a sort of Comedic Enlightenment, managing to combine her wry, insightful and penetrating humor with a transcendent ability in dealing with people in both business and entertainment situations."
— Eric Black
For readers who like their truth with teeth.
- —darkly funny memoirs
- —stories of survival without sentimentality
- —comedy born from chaos
- —complicated family stories
- —New York underworld stories
- —spiritual searching without guru nonsense
- —women who refuse to become only what happened to them
Watch Vanda tell the story
All My Cults
A Drunken Stumble Toward Enlightenment
A memoir about spiritual hunger, fringe groups, gurus, personal growth, and the embarrassing human desire to be fixed by someone else.
More books are coming.
Vanda intends to write many books. Some will be funny. Some will be horrifying. Ideally, the same ones.
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