Canongate Books
Darcey Steinke | Suicide Blonde
£9.95
9781837263998
02/07/2026
PB
192 pages
“Was it the bourbon or the dye fumes that made the pink walls quiver like vaginal lips?”
FEVERISH ~ PROVOCATIVE ~ INTIMATE
A neon-lit portrait of danger and desire, unravelling and reinvention.
Jesse is a twenty-nine-year-old adrift in San Francisco’s demi-monde of sexually ambiguous, drug-taking outsiders, desperately trying to sustain a connection with her bisexual boyfriend. She becomes caretaker and confidante to Madame Pig, a grotesque, besotted recluse, and meets Madison – Pig’s daughter or lover or both – who leads Jesse into a world beyond all boundaries.
Suicide Blonde an intensely erotic, intoxicating story of one young woman’s sexual and psychological odyssey.