{"product_id":"dora-a-headcase-isbn-9780983477570","title":"Dora: A Headcase","description":"\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe female \u003ci\u003eFight Club\u003c\/i\u003e: With shotgun blasts of playful dark humor, this ballsy coming-of-age story is based on Freud's famous case study, but retold and revamped through our young protagonist’s point of view\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIda needs a shrink; or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new therapist, who she nicknames Siggy or Sig, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals—Little Teena, Ave Maria, and Obsidian-engage in what they call \"art attacks\" for teen fun and mayhem. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Ida has a secret: she is in love with Obsidian. What's more, whenever she gets close to intimacy or a crisis of deep emotions, Ida faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly record and film Siggy, and Ida intends to make an experimental art film as a tribute. As Sig becomes the target of her teen rage and angst, something goes terribly wrong at a crucial moment—Ida's father suffers an acute heart attack. Her voice lost, a rough cut of her experimental film goes underground viral and unethical media agents are trying to hunt her down to buy the material. Suddenly, everyone wants what Ida's got—but she's not willing to give it up so easily.\"Hold a basketball under water, take your hand away, and it'll surface with the powerhouse force of the suppressed. Welcome to Lidia Yuknavitch's world. In \u003ci\u003eDora: A Headcase\u003c\/i\u003e, Yuknavitch reimagines the girl, the woman, at the heart of Sigmund Freud's breakthrough case study and unleashes this character's fury against a backdrop of hypocritical adulthood. Yuknavitch is talking back to a hundred years, to the founding of psychoanalysis. I'd like to think she wrote parts of this novel just for me, but so many readers will feel that way. Yuknavitch has wrestled with the force of her own convictions and given a powerful voice to a badass character born on the literary landscape.\" —Monica Drake, author of \u003ci\u003eClown Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dora is too much for Sigmund Freud but she's just right for us—raunchy, sharp and so funny it hurts.\" —Katherine Dunn, author of \u003ci\u003eGeek Love \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In these times there's no reason for a novel to exist unless it's dangerous, provocative and not like anything that's come before. \u003ci\u003eDora: A Headcase\u003c\/i\u003e is that kind of novel. It's dirty, sexy, rude, smart, soulful, fresh and risky. Think of your favorite out-there genius writer; multiply by ten, add a big heart, a poet's ear, and a bad girl's courage, and you've got Lidia Yuknavitch.\" —Karen Karbo, author of \u003ci\u003eHow Georgia Became O'Keeffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDora: A Headcase\u003c\/i\u003e is first and foremost an irreverent portrait of a smart seventeen year old trying to survive. It channels Sigmund Freud and his young patient Dora and is both a hilarious critique and an oddly touching homage. With an unerring ear and a very keen eye, Lidia Yuknavitch casts a very special slant of light on our centuries and our lives. Put simply, the book is needed.\" —Carole Maso, author of \u003ci\u003eDefiance \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Art Lover\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Snappy and fun. I can pretty much guarantee you haven't met a character quite l like Ida before.\" —Blake Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eParanoid Park \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIDIA YUKNAVITCH\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chronology of Water: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and three works of short fiction: \u003ci\u003eHer Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReal to Reel,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as a book of literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eAllegories of Violence. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMs., The Iowa Review, Exquisite Corpse, Another Chicago Magazine, Fiction International, Zyzzyva,\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. Her book \u003ci\u003eReal to Reel\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award, and she is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Poets and Writers and Literary Arts, Inc. Her work appears in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eLife As We Show It\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights), \u003ci\u003eForms At War\u003c\/i\u003e (FC2), \u003ci\u003eWreckage of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (Spuytin Duyvil). Yuknavitch teaches writing, literature, film, and Women\"s Studies in Oregon.","brand":"Hawthorne Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532139770085,"sku":"NP9780983477570","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780983477570.jpg?v=1773182801","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/dora-a-headcase-isbn-9780983477570","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}