Hear me out. Valley of the Dolls is one of those books I feel compelled to revisit every few years. It was the sum total of my sex education at age 12. It was an ironic call to feminist action when I was 16. At 18, it sank in that bisexual does not equal *mutant abonination*. In my 40s, I began to see it morphing into an ironic comment on our changing world -- and the shifting sands of publishing. And when I recently listened to the 50th Anniversary audio edition read by Laverne Cox -- well, that just took it to a whole new level of Oliver Twist realness.
Laverne Cox's comment on her experience reading the unabridged Valley of the Dolls includes a tasty excerpt. Highly recommending.
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