Fractured and feverish, this novel which imagines the life and thoughts of Valerie Solanas (famous for shooting Warhol and writing the SCUM Manifesto), took me deep into the head of a very troubled woman. There are scenes from Valerie's childhood, university life, the time she ran away to the coast, her periods in a mental institution, in court, and on her deathbed in a seedy hotel in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. It's often hard to read, difficult to orientate oneself, jumbled and disturbing. But ultimately desperately sad.