Dykette: A Novel

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Seen by butch. Seen as femme. Maybe a better word for it was dykette. Containing both the butch's gaze, and the femme's stare. Because of course, they're looking at each other"

I also thought about this book in terms of materials and materialism. How do you think of objects as a performance of nonconformity and normativity? and i think sasha’s obsession also stems from darcy’s sense of entitlement — to say and do whatever she wants, to express herself, to be as interested or uninterested as she pleases Maybe I just don't understand this side of queer culture (I am queer myself), but I could not relate to any of these characters and felt very much like an outsider, looking in on a secret queer club I'm not allowed to be in (and frankly wouldn't want to be). Damn this was an exhausting read.

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Dykette is hilarious, smart, and has (in my humble opinion) the best opening scene of any novel I've read in ages. I don't think I'll ever look at the Grinch--or bathtubs--in the same way again.” The style of this book is very gay-insiderish, so not every reader will get all the little references, like "Renaissance Butch." Davis delights in upending concepts of gender and sexuality...It's worth adding to the weekend bag.”

A blast of defiant frivolity, Dykette is so perceptive it hurts and as fun and decadent as wearing Gaultier in a bubble bath.”Even that I could have let go, having read JFD's other work and other works of the same ilk, were it not for the book's insistence on how groundbreaking and profound the narrator's internal life was. She truly writes, as does Davis, as if this work is the second coming of A Restricted Country or Stone Butch Blues. It's not. Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by VogueNamed a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and ThemNamed a Most Anticipated

It’s time to grow up. It’s time to be an adult, to be normal,” seethes Sasha, the titular “dykette” in Jenny Fran Davis’s queer zillennial comedy of manners. She says this shortly after her butch lesbian boyfriend, Jesse, declines to buy her an engagement ring. She’s half-serious, half-trying to be funny, as always. the LARB article also discusses your inventing game called “come inside” while recovering from an infected cyst, an experience sasha recounts in dyketteSasha is such an irritating, unpleasant character. Her constant recounting of her neuroses reminded me of that scene in Girls where Hannah is like, “I am thirteen pounds overweight and it has been miserable for me my whole life!” And I, the reader, feel like Adam Driver playing the world’s tiniest violin (and then immediately getting hit by a bus). Your mileage may vary here.