Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Weetzie Bat lives in a world at once magical and harshly real. This tale begins when Weetzie is fifteen, and follows her through the trials and adventures of becoming an adult. Reads like a fable.
weetzie bat is a small book about big topics – being gay, having a baby, witchcraft, AI
DS. Written almost like a fable, the main character is a teen named Weetzie Bat. She uses three magic wishes to enrich the life of herself and her best friend Dirk, who is gay. One wish is that they both find true loves and live together happily ever after. Enter "Duck", Dirk's lover, and "My Secret Agent Lover Man," Weetzie's true love. They all live together in a beautiful cottage where they raise two children – Cherokee, the daughter Weetzie and one of the three men (We never learn which one.) and one adopted daughter named Witch Baby. They live in a fantasyland-like Los Angeles, which they affectionately nickname Shangri –L.A., and hold on to each the best they can as their fantasyland slips away.
Jacket design by Alicia Mikles. Jacket (c) 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers. Scanned April 5, 2009.
Block, F.L. weetzie bat. 1989. NY: HarperCollins. 0-06-020534-2. $14.95. Hardcover.
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