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VB READS...LESBIAN BOOK GROUP

Sun, 07/05/2009 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Village Books
1200 Eleventh Street
Bellingham, Washington 98225

Join Sarah for discussions of literary books by & about lesbians on the 1st Sunday of every month at 2pm.

(Authors do not usually attend VB Reads)

July's selection is The Revolution of Little Girls, by Blanche McCrary Boyd.

As a little girl in South Carolina, Ellen prefers Tarzan to playing Jane.  As a teenage beauty queen, she baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies.  And as a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard and finds herself as a lesbian before nearly losing herself to booze and shamans.

The Revolution of Little Girls (Paperback)

By Blanche Mccrary Boyd
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780679738121
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 06/01/1992
No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. The Revolution of Little Girls is both funny and heartfelt, and a completely original and captivating work.
"Funny...lively, and wry, insightful and poignant. [A] psychedelic and unsettling journey into a Southern heart of darkness".-- "Atlanta Journal-Constitution"