Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

In Los Angeles, a precociously-chic girl named Weetzie Bat is maturing. While her best friend Dirk is searching for a boy named Duck, Weetzie meets the glamorous My Secret Agent Man and an epic romance begins. The result is a daughter named Cherokee. When My Secret Agent Man is seduced by a creature called The Lanka, who abandons the baby she then has, Weetzie decides to raise it as her own. Francesca Lia Block's sparse sentences and rich prose make these books (Weetzie Bat is the first in a series and each book is barely 100 pages) read like modern fairy tales. She paints a dazzling and mythic picture of existence in a city vibrant with the magic of old and new Hollywood.Weetzie Bat