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    Dykette: A Novel
    Dykette: A Novel
    Dykette: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Dykette: A Novel

    Written by Jenny Fran Davis

    Narrated by Alex Schmidt

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by Vogue
    Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and Them
    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Our Culture, Yahoo!, The Millions, LitHub and SPY.com
    Named a Most Anticipated Debut of 2023 by Debutiful and Goodreads

    An 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 couples

    Sasha 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.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

    Editor's Note

    Sexy, subversive…

    Get ready to cringe, chuckle, and text all your friends about this captivating look at contemporary queer life and its generational divides. Three queer couples get together for a 10-day vacation in New York, but they can’t get away from all their messy, competitive baggage. A sexy, subversive, and revealing love story that digs into the meaning of desire and our destructive need to perform for likes, online and IRL.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2023
    ISBN9781250899743
    Dykette: A Novel
    Author

    Jenny Fran Davis

    Jenny Fran Davis received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. The author of Everything Must Go, a novel for teenagers, she lives in Brooklyn.

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      First few words that pop into mind are 'iconic' and 'obsessed,' and the immediate cringe at that feels so fitting. The amount of lesbian processing in this book is both excessive and accurate: femme self-flagellation and overly saccharine performance of sacrifice, paired with the constant emotional testing of fumbling puppydog butches - all set against a satiny backdrop of grinch green and barbie pink. The choice of audio narrator couldn't have been more appropriate. Iconic, I'm obsessed.

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