Dykette

Books | Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian

Jenny Fran Davis

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 (So Far) by Vogue • Named a Best Book of 2023 (So Far) by Cosmopolitan • Named a Best Book of Spring 2023 by Esquire • Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and ThemAn addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two other queer couplesSasha and Jesse are professionally creative, erotically adventurous, and passionately dysfunctional twentysomethings making a life together in Brooklyn. When a pair of older, richer lesbians—prominent news host Jules Todd and her psychotherapist partner, Miranda—invites Sasha and Jesse to their country home for the holidays, they’re quick to accept. Even if the trip includes a third couple—Jesse’s best friend, Lou, and their cool-girl flame, Darcy—whose It-queer clout Sasha ridicules yet desperately wants.As the late December afternoons blur together in a haze of debaucherous homecooked feasts and sweaty sauna confessions, so too do the guests’ secret and shifting motivations. When Jesse and Darcy collaborate an ill-fated livestream performance, a complex web of infatuation and jealousy emerges, sending Sasha down a spiral of destructive rage that threatens each couple’s future.Unfolding over ten heady days, Dykette is an unforgettable love story at the crossroads of queer nonconformity and seductive normativity. With propulsive plotting and sexy, wickedly entertaining prose, Jenny Fran Davis captures the vagaries of desire and the many devastating places in which we seek recognition.

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Author

Jenny Fran Davis

Pages

320

Publisher

Henry Holt and Company

Published Date

2023-05-16

ISBN

125084312X 9781250843128

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"This book isn’t meant for the straights. Not one bit. It is a sapphic book through and through. With bits of queer theory here and there, this book features a 25 year old lesbian who is a women studies PhD candidate who is only looking out for herself. She is literally so narcissistic that I don’t think anyone could be worse! It’s bad! She has an obsession with the girl with the green ribbon around her throat. The writing is 100% similar to Torrey Peters and I think that queer writing is underrated but the protagonist is so unreliable. There were a few chapters that changed form like the one narrated by the dog but in reality this book was a great example of a caricature of millennial queerness."