An audio book.
When Molly's told that she's adopted she's not too upset. She plays tricks on other children in cooperation with others. She's interested in gender roles. She wants to be a doctor and marry a woman. With male cousin LeRoy she compares notes about adults and death. She has a girlfriend at maybe 11 and sleeps with her. She has sex with LeRoy as an experiment. At university she finds lesbians but loses her scholarship when she's found out. She works her way through film-making college. She dates a mother and her daughter, then finds out that the daughter's interested in sleeping with the mother. She has boyfriends at college, but sleeps with girls too. She returns to see her mother, who she wants to film for her project. She's dying. She recounts her life to the camera, saying how Molly's father had caught syphilis and couldn't have children.
Molly had hoped that the film-business would be open to women and even lesbians. It wasn't to be.
Other reviews
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- Issy Fleming (In many ways, the first half feels strangely similar to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird – the same child’s voice in a difficult and complicated America. ... It shifts from narrative-based plot to almost stream of consciousness asides and back again at alarming speed. ... In her angry disavowal of labels and categories, Molly ends up undermining other women’s ability to define themselves. ... The ending, as with much of the plot, feels slightly like a cliché or a caricature of plots that have been recycled over and over again. But that forgets that this book was genuinely pioneering in its time.)
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