The Beautifully Worthless is a brilliant novel in verse about a runaway waitress and her Dalmatian, Rorschach, who leave Brooklyn to find hope in a town named Camus, Idaho. Through a series of hilarious and heartbreaking letters to the ex back in Brooklyn, combined with some of the most exquisite poetry ever written about love and heartache and madness and crushes gone far askew, our heroine invites the reader to tag along with her and her faithful companion on their postmodern odyssey through an American landscape filled with ex-girlfriends, cute boys, a mysterious cave, mental institutions, sports radio, warm six-packs, roulette wheels, murder sites, Dairy Queens, and pineapple-upside-down cakes with family in Vegas.