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F/F Friday: Hey, Dollface
Apr. 19th, 2019 02:39 pmDeborah Hautzig published Hey, Dollface while still an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence, which goes some way toward explaining the unevenness of the prose. The first couple of chapters in particular are pretty rough: we follow Valerie through her first days at a fancy private high school school, and it’s more or less a record of “this happened and then this happened and this happened,” without a lot of elaboration or emotion.
But the book perks up when Valerie meets Chloe, another new girl who swiftly becomes Valerie’s best friend. They share a sardonic sense of humor, a love of thrift shops, an interest in art, a sense of “us against the world” - and slowly their friendship begins to grow a new dimension of sexual attraction.
( Spoilers )
Even though the prose is rough in places, the story was satisfying. I read it all in an evening, partly because it’s pretty short, but also because I didn’t want to put the book down till I knew how it all turned out.
But the book perks up when Valerie meets Chloe, another new girl who swiftly becomes Valerie’s best friend. They share a sardonic sense of humor, a love of thrift shops, an interest in art, a sense of “us against the world” - and slowly their friendship begins to grow a new dimension of sexual attraction.
( Spoilers )
Even though the prose is rough in places, the story was satisfying. I read it all in an evening, partly because it’s pretty short, but also because I didn’t want to put the book down till I knew how it all turned out.
