Dykette: A Novel

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Dykette dangles perilously from the fine line between fetishizing normativity in subversive ways and merely reifying — or at least submitting to — an oppressive status quo. The performance art in this book is bold and legitimately shocking, often in this kind of novel a big art setpiece cannot really deliver what it needs to the plot but oh this one does. I couldn’t really bring myself to care about the Dykette Subjectivity nor the brooklyn lesbian Scene presented here. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Vogue recently spoke to Davis about the book’s mix of clever camp and millennial ennui, taking inspiration from generations’ worth of writing about butch-femme dynamics, and the real-life trip upstate that became a creative springboard; read the full interview below.

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