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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