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Zipper Mouth (2011)

by Laurie Weeks(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1558617485 (ISBN13: 9781558617483)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

The Feminist Press at CUNY

review 1: A narrator who is almost permanently strung out, either hungover or drunk, and unapologetically (or obliviously) unaware. The ramblings were funny but not funny-funny, but not peculiar-funny, and eventually lost me in the last dozen pages as I pushed through to the end. The narrator is so hilariously delusional about herself that I couldn't help but cheer her on. Fuck Jane, who said the narrator is more of a mess than she is while pushing her to buy heroin after two weeks clean. I saw Steve and Cherry as the true stars, and the two Tammy-centric sections remain the highlights of the novel.
review 2: My friend Keke gave me this book for my birthday. Weeks never lets you know where one day ends and the other begins, but I was never lost. I trusted and I wasn't le... moret down. I drifted in and out of her life with her. I love autobiographies by poets like Eileen Myles' Inferno (2010) and I like that not everything is so obvious, but at the same time brutally honest. I love how she talks about her painful crush on her cool best friend, and also about how she wishes she could have been with Vivien Leigh and helped her and comforted her in all of her Scorpioness. The book talks a lot about drugs and substance abuse, but that did not make it a "drug novel" for me. This story is so much more and difficult to describe than that. Her imagery is so sensory and I am in in love with Laurie Weeks. less

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