Bogeywoman
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
A 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.
Call number in WMU's library
PS3557.O668 B64 2011 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
9780307946898
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Books
City
New York
Disciplines
Fiction
Citation for published book
Gordon, Jaimy. Bogeywoman. New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Print.
Recommended Citation
Gordon, Jaimy, "Bogeywoman" (2011). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 277.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/277