Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
	First edition
Author	Francesca Lia Block
Series	Dangerous Angels
Publisher	Harper Collins
Publication date	1993
ISBN	978-0-06-447095-7
Preceded by	Witch Baby
Followed by	Missing Angel Juan

Last updated August 02, 2019

Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1993) is the third book in the Dangerous Angels series by Francesca Lia Block.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It focuses on Cherokee, the daughter of Weetzie Bat, and her friends as they start a band, find success, and deal with the corruption of their spirits.^[5]

Dangerous Angels, also known as the Weetzie Bat series, is a young adult fiction series by Francesca Lia Block. It consists of seven novels: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, Missing Angel Juan, Baby Be-Bop, Necklace of Kisses, and Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie Bat. The books describe the lives of main character Weetzie Bat and her friends and family members in Los Angeles. The books include supernatural elements such as witches, genies, and ghosts and can be described as magical realism or mythpunk.

Francesca Lia Block is an American writer of adult and young-adult literature: fiction, short stories, screenplays and poetry. She is known best for the Weetzie Bat series — named after its first installment and her first novel, which she wrote while a UC Berkeley student, Weetzie Bat. She is known for her use of imagery, especially in describing the city of Los Angeles. One New York Times Book Review critic said, "Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler." She won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2005 for her contribution in writing for teens.

Plot summary

While the grown-ups are away making a movie, teenager Cherokee is left to cheer up her sort-of sister Witch Baby, who is deeply depressed. Cherokee makes her a pair of wings out of wire and feathers, and it cheers Witch Baby up due to an unexplained magical power. The two girls decided to start a band and enlist their two male friends, Raphael and Angel Juan.

As their band becomes successful, the other members acquire magical items to wear. Raphael begins to wear goat pants, Angel Juan gets horns, and Cherokee gets hoof-like boots. However, these items begin to lead them down a path of drugs, sex, and jealousy and things begin to unravel. In the end, Cherokee, disturbed by the changes in her friends, makes off with the magical costumes, causing her friends to re-examine their choices and find their way back to their normal selves.

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References

↑ "Summary/Reviews: Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys /". www.buffalolib.org. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
↑ Cotler, Joanna. "CHEROKEE BAT AND THE GOAT GUYS by Francesca Lia Block". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
↑ Alleen Pace Nilsen; Don L. F. Nilsen (5 July 2007). Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8108-6685-0.
↑ Patty Campbell (19 February 2010). Campbell's Scoop: Reflections on Young Adult Literature. Scarecrow Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-8108-7294-3.
↑ Gale Research (2005). Something about the author, Vol 158. Gale Research Company. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7876-8782-3.

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[1] "Summary/Reviews: Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys /". www.buffalolib.org. Retrieved 2016-01-27.

[2] Cotler, Joanna. "CHEROKEE BAT AND THE GOAT GUYS by Francesca Lia Block". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-01-27.

[NilsenNilsen2007-3] Alleen Pace Nilsen; Don L. F. Nilsen (5 July 2007). Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-8108-6685-0.

[Campbell2010-4] Patty Campbell (19 February 2010). Campbell's Scoop: Reflections on Young Adult Literature. Scarecrow Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 978-0-8108-7294-3.

[5] Gale Research (2005). Something about the author, Vol 158. Gale Research Company. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7876-8782-3.