Cruddy: A Novel (edit title)

oedalis edited the characters of Cruddy: A Novel Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Roberta Rohbeson/Clyde: The main character and narrator of the story.
• marked the description of Roberta Rohbeson/Clyde as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Vicky Talusoj: The Violent One.
• marked the description of Vicky Talusoj as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Stick: The love interest of Roberta and brother of Vicky. Suffers hemophilia.
• Added the spoiler-free description of The Stick: Brother of Vicky Talusoj.
• marked the description of The Stick as a spoiler
• Added the description of The Turtle: Companion and provider of mind-altering substances.
• marked the description of The Turtle as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Great Wesley: Companion to the Turtle.
• marked the description of The Great Wesley as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Raymond Rohbeson/The Father: Abusive, alcoholic father of Roberta, schemer of schemes.
• marked the description of Raymond Rohbeson/The Father as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Julie Rohbeson: Roberta's little sister.
• marked the description of Julie Rohbeson as not a spoiler
• Added the description of The Mother: Roberta's gold-digging, opportunistic, love-less mother.
• marked the description of The Mother as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Suzie Homemaker: Nominal guardian/caretaker to Vicky and The Stick.
• marked the description of Suzie Homemaker as not a spoiler

oedalis edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Cruddy: A Novel Wednesday, October 14 2009.

• Added: Teen girl gets high and while tripping out reveals to new acquaintances how she murdered her father at age 11.

Shelfari edited the description of Cruddy: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on a very cruddy mud road" soon becomes a detailed account of another story, one that she has kept silent since she was eleven. Darkly funny and resonant with humanity, Cruddy, masterfully intertwines Roberta's stories -- part Easy Rider and part bipolar Wizard of Oz. These stories, the backbone of Roberta's short life, include a one-way trip across America fueled by revenge and greed and a vivid cast of characters, starring Roberta's dangerous father, the owners of the Knocking Hammer Bar-cum-slaughterhouse, and runaway adolescents. With a teenager's eye for freakish detail and a nervous ability to make the most horrible scenes seem hilarious, Cruddy is a stunning achievement.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cruddy: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Lynda Barry: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cruddy: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• WHEN WE first moved here, the mother took the blue-mirror cross that hung over her bed in our old house and nailed a nail for it in the new bedroom of me and my sister.