A review by corvingreene
Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

5.0

I actually really liked this book, but the constant fat phobia, ableism, odd racism regarding the Native American character (exoticizing her in a creepy way), and the continual use of the word tran*y was entirely unnecessary and took me out of the story repeatedly. I don't think Yuknavitch needed any of those things to capture the voice of a teenage girl--which she does expertly, by the way. After having been forced to read quite a bit of Freud's oeuvre, it felt nice to read this sort of revenge against him. It's really a hilarious and moving book, just wish we didn't have to wade through the offensive bits. They have zero redeeming value.