Title: Dear Dickhead
Author: Virginie Despentes
Publisher (French): éditions Grasset
Publisher (eng): Quercus Publishing
Translator: Frank Wynne
Year: Original French Edition: 2022
English version: 2024
Dear Dickhead
Rebecca is in her fifties, a beautiful and successful actress past the peak of her career. Oscar is 35, a moderately well-known author who spends his time listening to rap music and trying to write a new novel. They were both nursed on the idea of the tortured artist and are experts in drug addiction, but they feel they may have to change their habits.
Zoé is a feminist in her late twenties. She wants neither to forgive nor to forget. She is addicted to social media, and that is where she spends all her time.
The three of them are not reliable. They are loud, opinionated and vulnerable. Until a friendship falls upon them and forces them to lay down their arms.
Performer: Angela Yu
Angela Yu (born 2003) is a poet born and raised in Hong Kong. At 17 years old, she published her first book in Chinese but now writes primarily in English and French. She is the author of 不反叛通知書, Juvie, Psycho in Paradise, and L'encyclopédie des parasites. When not writing, Angela enjoys drawing, tending to her CD collection, and brushing up on her heritage languages: Japanese and Shanghainese.
