Click here to read a book review by Roxanne Myslewski of Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase from Portland Monthly Mag on August 23, 2012.
FROM HEATHERS TO MEAN GIRLS TO GOSSIP GIRL, the scary teenage girl is a well-worn pop culture character—flippant, stubborn, and obnoxious. But in Oregon author Lidia Yuknavitch’s novel Dora: A Headcase, that familiar archetype becomes a razor-edged scalpel for dissecting what it means to be categorized, typed, and diagnosed.