Cookie Mueller was an actress of John Waters and New York's underground cinema. She also lived in the flowery San Francisco of 1967, where she met the Family.
Mueller rebels against her fame: “Why does everyone think I'm a savage? What happens is that I stumble upon the wild, which crosses my path.” Her new book, Walking through crystal-clear waters in a pool painted black, is based on articles and columns by Cookie Mueller. Following her husband, Vittorio Scarpati, she dies at the end of 1989 and her ashes are spread across four continents. The book is written during the flight, which means – be careful – that ellipses and camouflaged details abound. It is written by Rickie Lee Jones, who regularly ran away up and down the East Coast of North America, from Mazatlán to British Columbia, until he came of age, when he was 14. It could have been true or incorporated fantasies: Cookie did not accept that truthfulness ruined a good story.