Bouffant – A beatnik fairytale

Yes!

That is my late mother on the cover, and the book is about the glorious bouffant hairstyle that was all the rage in the 60s and 70s.

Bouffant – a beatnik fairytale is a collage-style picture book for teenagers and adults, with vivid images and whimsical text, as well as a surprising and fun collection of back pages that educate us all on the world of the BEATNIK.

The book is a love letter to my mother, and it has many twists and turns and outrageous things that happen, but in the end it is about the understanding between mother and daughter.

This book is also a homage to the beatniks, those rebel children of the arts and letters, in whose blood ran whiskey and wine, daring dreams and potent visions, and they were wild wild wild. Like most of us wished we could be …

This book is considered an LGBTQ book.