Rubyfruit jungle

by Rita Mae Brown

221 pages

English language

Published Dec. 20, 2015

ISBN:: 978-1-101-96512-2
OCLC Number:: 918899947

(10 reviews)

A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices. Rita Mae Brown tells the story of Molly Bolt, the adoptive daughter of a dirt-poor Southern couple who boldly forges her own path in America. With her startling beauty and crackling wit, Molly finds that women are drawn to her wherever she goes-- and she refuses to apologize for loving them back.

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3 stars

I read this for a 1973 project I'm working on. I knew it was a famous coming of age lesbian story, but nothing else. Turns out the protagonist is adopted with a hateful mother and spends a lot of the book in Ft. Lauderdale not too long before I grew up. So it turned out to be a bit of nostalgia and I could really identify with the kind of alone in the world she was. But there is a lot of offensive shit in this book - rape, incest, racism... And don't expect a lot of reflection. But there's not a lot of time to reflect when you're young and have to be constantly prepared to fight.