Darby's review of Suicide Blonde
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
** spoiler alert **
This book felt like it was one poetic prosing sentence after another trying to compete for the deepest navel gazing as possible. The story is dark. The story is of a girl named Jesse. She says about herself.."attracted to people who make me feel inadequate." Her lover is bisexual and obsessed over a former lover. So she is trying to find a way to keep him interested - just like her mother did with her father. The rest of the story is her deciding what she is going to do leave her boyfriend or go on with something else. One of those things is prostitution.
There is a woman named Pig in it who wants Jesse to bring her to a former female lover. Pig says, "When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it is terrible really how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you."
Said about Jesse..."You can't tell where you stop and other ...more
There is a woman named Pig in it who wants Jesse to bring her to a former female lover. Pig says, "When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it is terrible really how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you."
Said about Jesse..."You can't tell where you stop and other ...more
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