Prozac Highway: A Novel - Softcover

Blackbridge, Persimmon

3.59

80 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088974078X ISBN 13: 9780889740785

Publisher: Press Gang Pub, 1997

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An over-forty cleaning lady and lesbian performance artist, Jam is hitting mid-life head-on. She's having trouble walking to the corner store because she's so depressed, but her forays onto the Internet are providing the perfect escape route. Her best friend Roz thinks she's losing it. Her doctor thinks Prozac is the answer. Jam isn't sure anyone really knows which way is up - but there's definitely no going back! Hang on for a hilarious cyberlit journey through urban madness, pharmaceutical remedies for life and aging rebelliously.

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Prozac Highway is the story of Jam, a fortysomething Canadian performance artist who makes her living as a cleaning lady, makes her love over the Internet, and makes up her own definitions of sanity. By using an engaging first-person narrative voice and excerpts from e-mail love letters, Persimmon Blackbridge tells a sad, funny story and in the process questions the definition of self in today's cyberworld. Is the true Jam a harried cleaning lady, a sexy, witty Internet paramour, or a lesbian Everywoman who is burnt out on love, work, and romance? Blackbridge's gift, as demonstrated both in Prozac Highway and in her previous book, Sunnybrook: A True Tale with Lies, is to turn our murkiest, most serious concerns into engaging, intelligent fiction.

From Library Journal:

Blackbridge (Sunnybrook: A Story with Lies; Kiss & Tell) has much in common with her creation, Jam, a middle-aged lesbian performance artist/cleaning lady/psychiatric survivor stuck in a rut in Vancouver's trendy East End. When she is not bickering with her ex-lover over their next collaborative sex piece, Jam is playing computer games or corresponding with kindred spirits on ThisIsCrazy, a listserv for mental-health outpatients. Blackbridge, who like Jam is on the fringe of any community she's a part of, describes the strange kind of fame that comes from being well-known in a subculture, bringing to life the colliding--and frequently overlapping--worlds of lesbians, artists, net communities, and self-proclaimed "crazies" with acerbic wit. Jam and her fellow survivors are smart, funny, and excruciatingly self-aware. Highly recommended for all collections.
-Ina Rimpau, Newark P.L., NJ
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