The Good, the Bad, and the Suicidal by Beth Goobie

by Beth Goobie

Dariel is a SWFF, as in Single White Fat Female. Otherwise a typical student at a typical high school. You know, gangs, weapons, boredom, apathy. Neither a Jock nor an Irregular, Dariel is one of the Leftovers, a non-gang member. When the town imposes a 9 p.m. curfew to straighten out everyone under 18, they don't anticipate that she will mobilize an opposition that will reveal the adults' hypocrisies - including embezzlement and child abuse.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Beth Goobie is best known for her quirky and dark young adult novels. She's published several of them, beginning in 1994. Her novel Before Wings won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Book Award in 2000, and was chosen by young readers for the Best Books list of the American Library Association.Much of the turmoil in Goobie's life has been laid bare in two books for adult readers, Scars of Light, which is autobiographical poetry, and The Only-Good Heart, a book of short stories. Both are built on the theme of cults, abuse, and emotional torture. They were, she says, both therapeutic for herself and a warning to others.