5/12/2023 0 Comments Zipper Mouth by Laurie WeeksIt would be easy to catalog Weeks’ novel with its peers on the tiny bookshelf of urban lesbian novels and memoirs, addled with drugs and girls. Burroughs and Kathy Acker, among others, Zipper Mouth a magnetic narrative well worth the trip. Influenced by the manic pages of William S. The novel tells the jarring love story of a strung out young dyke, traipsing around the squalor and beauty of New York in the mid 90s. In a slim 158 pages, there may not be a denouement-no coming of age, no epiphany, no peak accomplishment-but there is so much movement that to finish the book is to come to a dizzying halt. Every verb pops, and sentences fling themselves forward with colorful climax. Momentum has a language, and in her long awaited debut novel Zipper Mouth (Feminist Press), Laurie Weeks speaks it fluidly.
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