Zipper Mouth

In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers — Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life. WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading. "Laurie Weeks' Zipper Mouth is a short tome of infinitesimal reach, a tiny star to light the land." —Eileen Myles, author of Inferno "Zipper Mouth is a brilliant rabbit hole of pitch-black hilarity, undead obsession, the horror of the everyday, and drugs drugs drugs." —Michelle Tea, co-founder of Sister Spit