Review
"If Tom Robbins and Exene Cervenka had hot, filthy sex in some dank back alley, their illegitimate lovechild might look something like Amy Güth. Her debut novel,
Three Fallen Women, manages to be both touching and terrifying, sentimental and demented, ferociously dark and unapologetically hopeful. Güth strings together words like a punk rock poet, taking the reader on a literary ride that can sometimes feel like being stuffed into a body bag, beaten with lead pipes, and then thrown into a ravine - but in a good way. What's most captivating about her novel is how it refuses to be defined. Is it an urban romance for cynics? A feminist battle cry? A tale of personal metamorphosis? The building blocks of a new religion? However you categorize it, if you don't come out the other side a changed person, you're either dead inside or lacking anything resembling a soul. Anybody who thinks that the patriarchy needs a suckerpunch to the ballsack won't be disappointed by
Three Fallen Women." --Eric Spitznagel, author of
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Porn Screenwriter
Product Description
Amy Guth's violent and shimmering debut novel is the story of three women caught in the vortex of breaking down. For Helen,a painter reawakening after a long period of self-destruction, peace is the choice between the love of her life and her new-found freedom. For Carmen, addiction will define the final throes of her broken heart. And for Frieda, the perfect housewife, catharsis is defined by sex and murder.
Three Fallen Women unapologetically weaves graphic adventure with heartbreak and sweetness to fashion a new brand of fiction. Equal parts feminist battle cry, anti-love story, and twisted metamorphosis, this is a novel that refuses conventional storytelling and lands a hard suckerpunch in the gut of the patriarchy.
Amy Güth has garnered a solid reputation in indie-lit circles as a consistently dynamic and entertaining live performer. Her readings are nothing short of performance art spectacles, including audience participation, props, and a punk rock energy that always attracts a large and enthusiastic crowd. Her debut novel brings that same energy to print.
by David Sedaris
~ Vampire Weekend
