The Terrible Girls

Rebecca Brown is one of the most original writers I have read in a long time. Her writing is intense and succint and the environments and situations she crafts surreal. I think that for the mere fact that her work is good she would appeal to a wide audience. More specifically and at the risk of pigeon-holing her and her work, which again is unlike much else that I have encountered, she is one of the best lesbian writers out there right now. There's so much generic fiction being put out by indie alt publishers (they are SO important, I'm a huge supporter, achieving and maintaining visibility in the arts is so crucial to the effort of attaining similiarly in the wider world, but they can and should have standards - if it's one good novel, it will stand out and be infinitely more important then 30,000 poorly written and edited texts that tell us nothing new in the same old cliched language)- Brown's work is intelligently conceived and beautifully written. It is also challenging, but all great literature tends to be - give her a try - I don't think you'll be disappointed.

this book rocked my world. the pomo style follows in the lesbianlit footsteps of monique wittig. thank god there's more than the well of loneliness out there.

i am an avid reader who is ussually bored by "best sellers" and instead is captivated by beautiful writing. this is one of my favorites and i've probably read it 5 times in the past 7 years. the stories are about love and betrayal and have a delicious nightmarish quality...