J. T. LeRoy Book order (chronological)

Laura Victoria Albert is the author whose writings include works credited to the fictional teenage persona of JT LeRoy, a long-running literary hoax in which LeRoy was presented to the public and publishers as a gender-variant, sexually questioning, abused, former homeless drug addict and male prostitute. Albert described LeRoy as an “avatar” rather than a “hoax,” and claimed that she was able to write things as LeRoy that she could not have said as Laura Albert. Albert asserts that she could not have written from raw emotion without the right to be presented to the world via JT LeRoy, whom she calls her “phantom limb” – a style of performance art she had been undertaking to deal with experiences even as a little girl. Her writing was published not as “memoir,” but as “fiction.”

Fazi Tascabili - 61: Sarah
189 pages
7 hours of reading
The narrator, an androgynous twelve-year-old boy, idolizes his mother Sarah, a 'lot lizard', or truck-stop whore. Adopting her name, and pretending to be a girl, 'Sarah' stumbles into dangerous and fantastic worlds pocketed away in the West Virginian wilds. He hitches a ride to the famous luck-restoring Jackalope, is mistaken for a saint and must prove himself by walking on water. When he is captured by the malevolent Le Loup, his life is put in jeopardy until his cries for help are finally heard.
2004
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
256 pages
9 hours of reading
A connection of loosely connected autobiographical stories describing the traumatic relationship of a teenager with his mother and their life on the road.
2001
3.2
Sarah
160 pages
6 hours of reading
A reissue of the bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story, which will have a theatrical release in July 2016.
2000
3.4

Fazi Tascabili - 61: Sarah

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Sarah