Dorothy Baker

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: brilliant, nerve-wracked, gay, and miserable. Returning to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras for the wedding of her identical twin to a nice doctor from Connecticut, she is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.

Cassandra at the Wedding

Clay Carey

lucy rosenthal

- this is the best novel i have read in years and maybe ever

- this is franny and zooey told in reverse

- this is franny and zooey for when the girlies get into their mid-twenties

- she’s just like me forreal (i will not say which one)

Donald

Reading this book, I couldn't help but think of 'Catcher in the Rye', which I hated, and how much better this is. Now, 'Cassandra at the Wedding' is not very similar to 'Catcher in the Rye', but they share enough similarities for my mind to be stuck on the comparison.

The other comparison I made was with the documentary 'The Bridge', which captures and explores people killing themselves by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Anyway, I highly recommend this book. I can only imagine how exciting it would have been to read it in the early 60's when it was first published, and I wonder, now, if anyone has bothered to add it to the canon of LGBT fiction, where it belongs.

Cassandra at the Wedding

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