Suicide Blonde By Darcey Steinkey
Last week I was in Borders and I noticed it was
packed. So maybe that news story I read that said
noone reads was wrong. Personally I think a Friday
night in a bookstore with my date. Maybe with my
crochet, a little light yarn bondage makes for fine
first date fun.
Back again with another great book Suicide Blonde by
Darcey Steinkey of Jesus Saves fame. The Amazon.com
reviews of this book are rather lukewarm, you ethier
love this book or hate it. I one of the ones who loved
this book?
Why?
Because it’s written well and very frankly, Ms.
Steinkey tells it how it is she doesn’t write fluffy
characters whose sole goal is to fall in love. This is
the story of falling out of love and all the pain and
confusion that comes along with it. Except there’s a
big twist, 90’s style. Bell is Jesse’s boyfriend, who
happens to be bisexual, and pining for his first love
Kevin. So the question Jesse faces is : How do you
hold on to someone willfully slipping away?
The story is set in San Francisco a very gritty and
real look at how circumstances can effect even the
sanest people. This book strikes a cord with me
because I could identify with the confusion, which
throws Jesse from sitution to sitution each one
seemingly more sorrid than the last. The character
that I find most perplexing is Pig she is a secondary
character that sets the most bizzare seris of events
in action.
Madison is another enigma, just who is she? A junkie
prositute or a smart post modern business woman?
Books often can echo a person’s subconcious if this is
true, then wow I drew a lot of valuable knowledge from
this iluminating prose. This book may have it’s rough
spots, but I feel they don’t mar its beautiful yet
dirty city style writing
I fully give this book my approval and I sincerly hope
to Darcey Stienkey writes more in the future. Pick
this one up!