“Godspeed” by Lynn Breedlove (2002)
Another one that I had to read – for one of my classes. The class is about post-modernist (and beyond) female writers and this one was rather hard to come by (note to amazon.de: order more!). This is unfortunate because it is really good, powerful, honest, full of memories that connect a generation (my generation) yet also experienced by an individual and through other indivuduals.
It’s the story of Jim/Elizabeth who uses and abuses drugs, works different jobs and travels from one end of America to the other. S/HE comes of age but is never educationally condescending toward the reader or her/his own experiences. One has the inkling that there are still a lot of mistakes for the main character (and his/her friends) to go through.
Mostly it is a marvellous time piece (maybe for me because I have forgotten so much of that particular time) about squatters, drugs, AIDS, sexual and gender inhibitions… it is also wonderfully American yet cosmopolitan.
For everyone who misses punx, and grrls, and abused youth.
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