"'The Love Slave' was written in 1979, revised in 1998, and has not succeeded in finding a publisher because of its subject. The story takes place in the later 70's and concerns a ballbuster who's sick of American men so she travels to a (fictitious) remote Arab nation and purchases a love slave. The tone is satiric black comedy on the order of early Evelyn Waugh. Sarah is currently transmuting the material into an original script, also tentatively titled 'The Love Slave.'"

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"The hippest, raunchiest (book) I've read in a long time...a riotous caper. Kernochan has captured her characters' language and psyches with a fierce fidelity...unhackneyed integrity...incorrigible chutzpah. A gem of a novel!"
- MS Magazine.

"Lorelei Lee would blush. The once upon a time girl whose 'heart-belongs-to-daddy' would faint. Moving into the sexual arena already inhabited by Rosalyn Drexler, Gael Greene and Erica Jong, this first novelist serves up some of the raunchiest, most explicit sex scenes yet...Ferociously funny, the tall tales our anti-heroines spin put Paul Bunyan to shame. Kernochan is someone to watch."
- Barbara Bannon, Publishers Weekly

Synopsis: An older con woman initiates a younger into the art of the "dry hustle," the science of extracting money from men for sexual favors which are never delivered. Like a road movie, the novel traces the two bunco artists as they "dry-hustle" their way across America. Kernochan based the two main characters on a pair of actual women she discovered working their scam out of a dance hall in New York's Times Square area.