This blog is a collection of book reviews, submitted as a final project for San Jose State University's LIBR 267, taught in Spring 2010 by Professor Joni Bodart.

Michelle M Coleman

Monday, May 17, 2010

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

Block, Francesca Lia. Weetzie Bat. (10th Anniversary Ed.) New York: Harper Trophy, 1999. ISBN-10: 0064408183 

Summary 
Weetzie Bat is best friends with Dirk, who is gay. When Weetzie gets three wishes, she wishes for a pefect guy for Dirk, a perfect guy for herself and a house for them all to live in. That day, Dirk's elderly grandmother dies and they inherit her house. Dirk meets Duck and Weetzie meets  My Super Agent Lover Man. The four hipsters cruise L.A. happy to have found each other. When Weetzie decides she wants a baby, My Super Agent Lover Man is afraid to bring a baby into the world. Weetzie sleeps with all three men and conceives Cherokee but My Super Agent Lover Boy leaves. In his absence, he spends a night with another woman, and conceives Witch Baby, but returns to his true love. When the mother leaves Witch Baby in a basket on their doorstep the four adults decide to keep her. Thus their family is formed.

Critical Evaluation
Told with a sense  of satisfaction and wonder, the action unfolds in Weetzie Bat as if by fate. The characters expect to find true love and once they find it never doubt it. L.A is a mystical place, where everything is beautiful and everything is possible. It's a fun and touching story- a modern fairy tale.

Reader's Annotation 
For slinksters Weetzie and Dirk, finding love is the greatest thing and now that they've find it, life is finally happy.

Bibliotherapeutic Usefulness 
Finding acceptance of self, especially for gay young adults.

Genre and Subject 
Magical realism. True love, gay romance, parenthood.

Why I read it
Reader's of Boy Meets Boy will love Weetzie Bat.

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