Suicide Blonde - Darcey Steinke, Canongate Books

FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATEA neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention.Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco's demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse, and meets Madison - Pig's daughter or lover or both - who leads Jesse into a world beyond all boundaries. Suicide Blonde an intensely erotic, intoxicating story of one young woman's sexual and psychological odyssey.