Full name: Dora: A Headcase

Author: Lidia Yuknavitch Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Psychology, Young adult, Gay & Lesbian Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780983477570 0983477574

Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, whom she nicknames Siggy, Ida begins a coming-of-age journey. At the beginning of her therapy, Ida, whose alter ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals engage in "art attacks." Ida's in love with her friend Obsidian, but when she gets close to intimacy, she faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly film Siggy and make an experimental art film. But something goes wrong at a crucial moment--at a nearby hospital Ida finds her father suffering a heart attack. While Ida loses her voice, a rough cut of her experimental film has gone viral, and unethical media agents are hunting her down. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida has. Similar books: The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis Iona Moon by Melanie Rae Thon Bilgewater by Jane Gardam Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg Joy School by Elizabeth Berg Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen Towelhead by Alicia Erian Cambridge by Susanna Kaysen Finny by Justin Kramon The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison True to Form by Elizabeth Berg The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson Undressing the Moon by T. Greenwood I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg The Luckiest Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu