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The Beautifully Worthless cover image by Alison Kelly lesbian fiction/poetry
The Beautifully Worthless is a brilliant novel in verse about a runaway waitress and her Dalmatian, Rorschach, who leave Brooklyn to find hope in a town named Camus, Idaho. Through a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the ex back in Brooklyn, combined with some of the most exquisite poetry ever written about love and heartache and madness and crushes gone far askew, our heroine invites the reader to tag along with her and her faithful companion on their postmodern odyssey through an American landscape filled with ex-girlfriends, cute boys, a mysterious cave, mental institutions, sports radio, warm six-packs, roulette wheels, murder sites, Dairy Queens, and pineapple-upside-down cakes with family in Vegas.
Read an excerpt of The Beautifully Worthless at Outsider Ink.
Ali Liebegott's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. In 1999, Liebegott was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and in 1997 and 1999, she read her poems and stories nationwide with the notorious Sister Spit's Ramblin' Road Show. All that said—her favorite things in life are feeding ducks and teaching adults GED and ESL. She currently lives in San Diego.
Read a interview with Ali Liebegott at Curve.
“Ali Liebegott is just what the world of books needs—a voice laden with serious heartbreak and total hilarity, that takes on the absurd and somber struggles life dumps in our laps with the perfect mixture of reverence and insanity. I do believe she is a genius, and The Beautifully Worthless a stunning, memorable first book.”
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A high-resolution The Beautifully Worthless cover is available here. Publisher: Greg Wharton |
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