Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch is a book I picked up because the introduction was written by Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk has a tendency to only blurb about books that are actually worth reading. Because of his blurb on Knockemstiff , I was introduced to Donald Ray Pollock’s dark approach to story telling, which is for all to view in his newest novel Devil All the Time (check out Simon’s blog on Devil All the Time).
Ida a.k.a. Dora is a Seattle teenager who has recently entered therapy with a psychiatrist she has dubbed “Siggy”. Dora and her tight group of friends stage what they call “art attacks” (playing hide and go seek with bottles of alcohol in the local Nordstroms for example) as a means of entertainment. Dora and her friends have decided to make a film about her shrink, Siggy and go about stealthily videotaping, recording, tracking and following him around. I’m not going to give too much away but know this about Dora; whenever she and her love interest, Obsidian, start to get intimate Dora passes out or loses her voice. Maybe she should start taking her therapy seriously…
by Zita
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