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After the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like something wild, caged, and pacing, Laurel tries to lose herself. But when she runs away from the past, she discovers a passion so powerful, it brings her roundabout and face-to-face with the demons she wants to avoid.
In a stunning departure from her enormously popular Weetzie Bat books, Francesca Lia Block weaves a darkly exhilarating tale of shattered passions and family secrets.
Rezensionen (5)
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
"Block's novel is structured upon the conventions of a tarot reading, adding another layer of meaning and mystery to the hypnotic prose," said PW's starred review of this tale of a girl grappling with her abusive father's death. "Disturbing but ultimately exhilarating." Ages 12-up. (Oct.) r (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book-Rezension
Once her father dies of cancer, Laurel hopes to purge herself from his years of sexual abuse. She becomes anorexic and gets involved in a frightening, destructive sexual relationship. Block leaves nothing out: abuse, abortion, suicide, and drugs all find a place in a disturbing, sophisticated novel. Though well written, it certainly is for only the most mature of the young-adult audience. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist-Rezension
Gr. 11 and up. Laurel's world is Hollywood with all its glitter and all its excesses, peopled by a cast of hedonistic adults and their confused and desperate offspring. Against this backdrop, Laurel fights a battle for her emotional survival with the demon of her dead father's incest and her mother's rationalization and denial. It is her passion for the mysterious and magical Jack that finally enables her to confront the ugly secrets of her past and regain control of her life. It would be hard to question Block's skill as a writer. Her characters have a deeply affecting intensity, her settings are painted with an artist's eye, and her images are bits of poetry, but this complex and disturbing book requires a very special audience. In spite of the illustrated explanations, much of the symbolism and therefore the impact of the work will be lost on someone who doesn't have an understanding of the tarot and psychokinetic phenomena. Recreational drug use, heroin addiction, casual sex, m{{‚}}enage {{...}}a trois, and masturbation are all threads in the fabric of the plot, which might be misinterpreted by readers who come to the novel without a vast core of experience. For incest victims and their concerned family members and friends, this is a compelling presentation of alienation and eventual triumph. For Block fans, it is a journey on a road much different from that of Weetzie Bat (1989). School and public librarians will need to read this book first to allow for informed recommendations to young readers. (Reviewed September 15, 1994)0060245360Jeanne Triner
School Library Journal-Rezension
Gr 10 Up-Laurel, who was named for the canyon, doesn't eat. Her father has just died of cancer; now her mother cooks and cleans in a frenzy and moths follow her (the spirit of her husband, like in One Hundred Years of Solitude). Laurel thinks of herself as the Hanged Man, the tarot symbol meaning ``Renunciation. Self-deprivation. Suspended in illusion...Self-poisoning. Also, resurrection.'' She is punishing herself for the incestual relationship she had with her father, and for loving him in spite of it. She smokes to lose flesh. She wants to change, to be pure and free ``like some fairy thing.'' At the same time, she wants to have a woman's body and wishes her period would come back. Her lover, Jack, and her friend, Claudia, try to help her-the three of them even sleep together-but in the end it's she who resurrects herself, and her mother who shares the flood of her pain. Her period returns, and she is seized with the desire to paint and to live. Block's prose moves like a heroin trip through the smog and wet heat, heavy flowers, and velvet grunge of Hollywood. Readers will see themselves in Laurel's dreams and be excited by the strange, yet familiar possibilities there; and they'll want fiercely, like her, to create, to dance on the beach, to have visions, to make love, and to love themselves for who they are. This is serious life Block is writing about-it's raw, hellish, heavenly, and real.-Vanessa Elder, School Library Journal (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus-Rezension
After her father's death from cancer, Laurel returns to her toymaker's fantasy of a house beneath the ``HOLLYWOOD'' sign for an aimless round of parties and outings, most of which could be interchanged without harming the plot. Already anorexic to the point of losing her menstrual cycle, Laurel seems to be spiraling toward a sad end, driven as much by watching her best friend become a junkie and by her obsession with news about a serial rapist/killer still at large as by thoughts of her father. It is also revealed, halfway through the book, that Laurel has had an abortion. Redemption appears in the cadaverous form of Jack, a laconic character with some conventional trappings--a motorcycle, a drum kit. After several fairly nonspecific sexual encounters (including one featuring inventive uses for champagne and strawberry ice cream), Jack gets Laurel to admit that her baby's father was also her own. The admission puts her on the road to recovery (she gets her period again). Laurel's California world is anything but mundane--the book is constructed around a tarot reading and includes psychic phenomena--but Block (Missing Angel Juan, 1993, etc.) keeps readers at arm's length with a pale cast and Laurel's indifferent first-person narration. Block's usually vivid characters and daring, original vision are not much in evidence in this distant tale of a damaged teenager. (Fiction. 12+)