Suicide Blonde (Darcey Steinke)

FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATE

A neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention.

Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse, and meets Madison - Pig's daughter or lover or both - who leads Jesse into a world beyond all boundaries.

Suicide Blonde an intensely erotic, intoxicating story of one young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey.

Darcey Steinke is the author of multiple works of non-fiction and novels, including her most recent memoir, Flash Count Diary. Her books have been translated into ten languages and her nonfiction has appeared widely, including in the Times, New York Times and Paris Review. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University and the American University of Paris. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn.

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