Candy Girl- Diablo Cody
Ok- let’s first get out the way that this is the women who wrote ‘Juno’ which is one of the best damn movies I have EVER seen, a woman who is so hip it hurts and who I am thus inclined to adore.
BEFORE she went and wrote Juno, Diablo spent a year being a stripper and Candy Girl talks quite frankly about how she got into stripping – if you want a tale of childhood abuse, drugs and male violence then go somewhere else- Diablo has a college education, appears to be/or to have identified as a feminist and has a perfectly happy nuclear family which contains both her birth parents and grew up in a perfectly nice middle class setting. The book is an all nighter- I couldn’t put it down. It’s well written, funny and full of dry wit and sarcasm which I like, and chocka with rock/punk/alternative references (she stripped to Aerosmith, Def Leppard and the Pixies!), although the hipster slang does get a little wearing in places. I’d recommend it as a pop corn read- won’t tax your brain or make you fat, but it is interesting and representative of the bubblegum pink hair and Suicide Girls era. I may just have to add Diablo Cody to my hero’s list.