Kind and small, she’s just soft enough to find love in her hella hard life. And then there’s Squeaky, the book’s moral compass. Whereas Kitty and Maxine are wild creatures, ids unharnessed in jubilant destruction, Fanta, Wet Leather’s reserved and cerebral guitarist, legitimizes the band’s efforts through her familiarity with feminist theory and superior song-crafting skills. Kitty is a confused but exuberant young woman recovering and relapsing from heroin addiction - she is a living crisis that slaps sloppy bass lines in the dark. Wet Leather’s lead singer, Maxine, is pretty and petty, and her anxieties about being in her late thirties and fronting a feminist punk band eventually culminate in deliciously indulgent megalomania. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In using the close third-person voice to chronicle the adventures of all-female Van City punk outfit Wet Leather, McWhirter’s narrator occasionally falters when rapidly shifting between the perspectives of her characters the women begin to appear too flat, identifiable as types rather than fully realized individuals. Five Little Bitches takes as its form a near-collage of travelogue, character study and liner notes, held perhaps too much in check by a omniscient narrative voice that, like the music the book takes inspiration from, sometimes feels particularly unfinished and technically unwieldy. In approximation of the DIY zine aesthetic of the 1990s, the book’s pages are illustrated with inky fields of Sharpie scrawled text and Xeroxed photographs. The novel by design recalls another era, even though it’s set in the present. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.
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