BogeywomanA Los Angeles Times Best Book or the Year National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon’s bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of Catcher in the Rye with the humor and tragedy of Girl, Interrupted. Ursie Koderer knows herself to be a monster--doomed to be different from other girls--very different. When she’s discovered cutting herself at camp, she goes AWOL, and lands in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Ursie, now known as the Bogeywoman, joins up with the other misfits on the adolescent ward. They start a bughouse rock group, steal a nitrous oxide machine. As a mental patient Ursie is a success. But then she’s implicated in the accidental burning of a friend. Locked away, the Bogeywoman meets the beautiful, mysterious Doctor Zuk, a woman psychiatrist from somewhere east of the Urals. Their affair is the main event in this gorgeous novel of love, crime, liberation, and flight to something like a new world. |
Contents
3 | |
Buggywoman | 42 |
Miles from Madame Zuk | 80 |
Fallen Among Ayrabbers I 13 | 113 |
A Quietroom of Ones Own | 152 |
Blab to Foofer | 172 |
Flight to CaramelCreamistan | 223 |
How Love Got Me Out of There | 277 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ableemooch ain't Anyhow asked ayrabbers beautiful Bertie better Bogeywoman Bug Motels bug song buggy bughouse Camp Chunkagunk Cheese Chug coddy Cowpea dangled dark Dion disgusting Doctor Zuk door dreambox mechanic Édouard Egbert Emily Emily's eyes face feet Feuffer fingers floor Foofer fuddy funny girl girlgoyle godzilla gonna Gooskuk gotta green Gulaim hair hand head horse hospital hospital gown hump Jenghiz Khan Karamul-Karamistan kinda knew Koderer laughing lemme lesbo looked Lou Rae Madame Zuk Margaret mayor's daughter mean mental patient mental peon Merlin Miss Bogey mouth never nose nuttin oink Okay Ottie outa pink quietroom Reggie Regicide Rohring Rohring rolled royals see-through princess smiled smoke song stared stuck stuff sumpm Suzette talk teeth tell thing thought Tuney ugly Ursie Ursula WBUG weasel whispered Willis Marie Bundgus woman wood wizardess yall Zuk's