Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award"When your car is spinning out of control heading for the guard rail, you have all the time in the world."Losing her nerve and burning out fast, hardcore lesbian performance artist Jam has trouble coping with the outside world. Her best friend and former lover, Roz thinks Jam's losing it, big time. Her doctor thinks Prozac is the answer.Meanwhile, Jam finds love, comfort and support from ThisIsCrazy, a talk room on the internet, where she trades messages and shards of hard-bitten wisdom about treatment and withdrawal with the likes of Fruitbat, Junior and D'isMay. Tough, funny and sexy, Prozac Highway packs a sweet punch. Think Tales of the City in cyberspace and click onto this dazzling literary breakthrough.Persimmon Blackbridge, is a writer, performer, sculptor, cleaning lady and member of the notorious lesbian art collective, Kiss & Tell. She is the winner of the VIVA award for visual art (1991) and a Lambda literary award (with Kiss & Tell, 1995). Her previous books include an illustrated novel, Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies (1996), and the controversial Her Tongue On My Theory (with Kiss & Tell, 1994), a collection of erotic images and analysis of lesbianism."A beautiful portrait ... Blackbridge writes humorous, intimate, wonderfully restrained prose perfectly attuned to her narrator's vivid inner life ... a tour be force."?Publishers Weekly

Prozac Highway

Literature & Fiction

Blackbridge, Persimmon

Contemporary

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Book by Stewart, Susan, Blackbridge, Persimmon, Jones, Lizard

Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall

LGBTQ+ Books

Stewart, Susan

Jones, Lizard

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers

Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies

Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies

Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies is the hilarious and angry story of a young woman who fakes her way into a job that changes her life. One cover-up follows another as Diane hides her learning disabilities from her new employer, the "Sunnybrook Institution for the Mentally Handicapped" and her girlfriend. But her dreams of becoming "a professional" are threatened by her identification with the inmates at Sunnybrook. And when Diane meets Shirley-Butch at the bar, her lesbian identity and her psychiatric history become irrevocably intertwined. Moving back and forth between Diane's job and her personal life, Sunnybrook is by turns funny, tragic and sexy. It is a riveting and visually arresting story about a group of people whose lives are made up of small acts of resistance, who steal moments of joy whenever possible.

Sunnybrook: A True Story With Lies

Press Gang Pub

United States

Jam is having a hard time walking to the corner store because she's so depressed, but her life on the internet is providing the perfect escape route. Persimmon Blackbridge has created a hilarious cyberlit journey through internet romance, pharmaceutical remedies for life, and aging rebelliously.

Prozac Highway: A Novel

The author, an award-winning filmmaker, talks candidly about her struggles, sacrifices, inspirations, and triumphs as she deals with her disability after a stroke. Originally published as Slow Dance. Reprint.

Out of the Blue: One Woman's Story of Stroke, Love, and Survival

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Klein, Bonnie Sherr

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Wildcat Canyon Pr

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