Dora A Headcase: A Novel

Lidia Yuknavitch, Chuck Palahniuk

eBook - 2012

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 viewIda 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... more