Review:
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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