![]() ![]() For a period of time her father sends her money, but later she begins to work at a hippie bakery and is appalled by the customers, whose behavior gradually spirals out of control. Her father agrees to let her go and puts her into a school in New York City. She has an incestuous sexual relationship with her father, whom she treats as "boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father." They live together in Mexico until another woman begins to interest Janey's father, leading Janey to realize he hates her because she limits him by dominating his life, and he wants to have his own life. The novel is a metafictional text, aware of its status as a fictional piece.īlood and Guts in High School, while having a frequently disrupted and heavily surreal narrative, is the story of Janey Smith, a ten-year-old American girl living in Mérida, Mexico, who departs to the US to live on her own. It remains Acker's most popular and best-selling book. It traveled a convoluted route to publication, before being officially released in 1984. It was written in the late 1970s and copyrighted in 1978. Blood and Guts in High School is a novel by Kathy Acker. ![]()
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