Goat Girls

Weetzie Bat #2-3

by Francesca Lia Block

Two magical-realist coming-of-age Weetzie Bat stories from Francesca Lia Block: Witch Baby and Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys.

Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

About the author

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. She received the Spectrum Award, the Phoenix Award, the ALA Rainbow Award and the 2005 Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as other citations from the American Library Association and from the New York Times Book Review, School Library Journal and Publisher’s Weekly. She was named Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College in 2014. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, German Japanese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Portuguese. Francesca has also published stories, poems, essays and interviews in The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Review of Books, Spin, Nylon, Black Clock and Rattle among others. In addition to writing, she teaches creative writing at University of Redlands, UCLA Extension, Antioch University, and privately in Los Angeles where she was born, raised and currently still lives.

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Weetzie Bat a few years ago for grad school and loved it. I may have loved this even more. It's not so much a story, as a dream that you can feel, taste, smell and hear. The characters sparkle with life with just a few perfect words and gestures. Weetzie's two daughters, Cherokee (her real daughter) and Witch Baby (her almost-daughter) are children and teens in the two stories that make up Goat Girls. The two tales are about growing up and discovering who you are. It's feathers and love and friendship and beauty. I could easily get lost in their world of surfing, music, Native American lore, forgotten Hollywood, and slinkster-cool parties....and never return.

[Jenna Click · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE this series so much and i like the character evolution of Witch baby and Angel Juan. Its also getting scary and really creative.

[Kira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Witch Baby: 5 Stars
Wow, this book. It was beautiful and lyrical and heatbreaking, but managed to have more of a consistant plot and theme than Weetzie Bat did. The story of Witch Baby coming of age and accepting herself and her place in the world felt like a modern Odessey through LA. It was difficult to read at points because Witch Baby is very much an outsider (even isolating herself) and a lot of who she is and what she does goes unnoticed. She represents beauty in sadness and darkness in our lives. The only complaint I have is this is the 90's idea of diversity, which crosses over into stereotypes and cultural appropriation A LOT. But if you can get past those cringy parts, there is a book that can touch your soul. This is a book for anyone who feels like they never fit in.

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys: 4 Stars

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very unusual tales of adolescent girls living in LA.

[The Third Place A Teen Library]

F BLO wbs bk. 2&3

[Summer Bat · Rating 5 out of 5]

perfectly dreamy, encapsulated every good dream i've ever wanted to have