Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATERThe female Fight Club: With shotgun blasts of playful dark humor, this ballsy coming-of-age story is based on Freud's famous case study, but retold and revamped through our young protagonist's point of view
Ida needs a shrink; or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new therapist, who she nicknames Siggy or Sig, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals--Little Teena, Ave Maria, and Obsidian-engage in what they call "art attacks" for teen fun and mayhem.
But Ida has a secret: she is in love with Obsidian. What's more, whenever she gets close to intimacy or a crisis of deep emotions, Ida faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly record and film Siggy, and Ida intends to make an experimental art film as a tribute. As Sig becomes the target of her teen rage and angst, something goes terribly wrong at a crucial moment--Ida's father suffers an acute heart attack. Her voice lost, a rough cut of her experimental film goes underground viral and unethical media agents are trying to hunt her down to buy the material. Suddenly, everyone wants what Ida's got--but she's not willing to give it up so easily.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the national popular books The Book of Joan, The Little Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Chronology of Water, as well as the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her TED Talk, The Beauty of Being a Misfit, has been seen over 2 million times. She has won two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award, as well as being a nominee for the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the 2012 Pen Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she writes, teaches, and writes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780983477570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0983477574 |
| Title | Dora: A Headcase |
| Author | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hawthorne Books |
| Year published | 2012-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 237 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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