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A review by irismessenger_
Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis
4.0
A modern day bourgeois comedy of manners, that follows three couples of brooklyn-dykes on a winter holiday on Long Island. Sasha, our main character, is femme, high-strung, and 'straight for butches.' Her disposition lacks any crumb of an earnest heart, and like most of the characters in this book, I found her kind of insufferable. Her lesbian boyfriend, who is on T and uses he/him and she/her pronouns interchangeably, is at the whims of Sasha's projections, that range from strict gender roles, to non-consensual-roleplay during sex.
While the characters gave me less than something to like, I did find the Contemporary Queer Tableau a fascinating display of the upper echelon of dyke society. This book will be hit or miss for most people, and maybe even a little incomprehensible to the cis/hets. I guess my most sympathetic reading of Dykette is that dyke archetypes lack fun in most of the queer lit I've read, and this book was queer melodrama at its best. Maybe give it a try?! I don't know.
While the characters gave me less than something to like, I did find the Contemporary Queer Tableau a fascinating display of the upper echelon of dyke society. This book will be hit or miss for most people, and maybe even a little incomprehensible to the cis/hets. I guess my most sympathetic reading of Dykette is that dyke archetypes lack fun in most of the queer lit I've read, and this book was queer melodrama at its best. Maybe give it a try?! I don't know.