Blood and Guts in High School

by Kathy Acker

Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her).... (read more)

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distresing.

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This was the weirdest text I've ever read. It doesn't make sense and made me think the author was high when she wrote it. Do not read this book.

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