Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat, a new teen novel by Francesca Lia Block, features Marilyn as an inspiration to our heroine – a 13 year-old high school dropout struggling to come to terms with her parents’ divorce – reports the New York Times:
‘Meanwhile, the forever young Marilyn Monroe is Weetzie’s idolized heroine and the source of some of the most disturbing material in the novel. “I love how sad Marilyn’s eyes look, even when she’s smiling,” Weetzie says. “I love her body that just looks like it wants to give itself to everyone like a present.” Weetzie’s unhealthy self-esteem and relationship to others seeps through the narrative. Her mother, Marilyn, Los Angeles — they are all the same in Block’s floating tale.’
