Jump to navigation. The book's PR trumpeted that it "is sure to be one of the most-talked-about and controversial books of the yearβ¦the rock and roll version of The Satanic Verses.
After actually reading it, though, I'm thinking that if The Last Living Slut does turn out to be one of the most talked-about books of the year, it'll be mainly because those publicists can't stop fulminating about how controversial it is.
Here's the gist of the book: Shirazi grows up in the midst of Iran's Islamic Revolution, the child of a political-activist mother and an all but absent father. She recognizes her own precocious sexuality as a shameful secret, and never speaks of the childhood sexual exploitation and abuse she experiences at the hands of older neighbors and family friends. Cut to Shirazi's early twenties, when she discovers sex and rock music almost simultaneously, and embarks on a quest to "fulfill my hunger for a free-spirited life" via backstage and often semipublic nooky with a passel of fellow groupies and rock dudes.
The latter are either washed-up American hair farmers Velvet Revolver, L. Guns , or upstart British metal bands Towers of London, Kid Ego , and she has a lot of explicit fun with them. Golden showers! Double penetration! A lot of girl-on-girl performance for the guys!
Aaaand then she falls in love with one of the hair farmers Dizzy Reed of late-period Guns N' Roses, if anyone cares and he's a total douchenozzle and forces her to have an abortion and everything all goes to shit.
