Rubyfruit Jungle
Rita Mae Brown · 1973
The first great lesbian coming-of-age novel to reach mainstream audiences. Molly Bolt's unashamed pursuit of love and selfhood blazed a trail through American culture at a moment when that trail genuinely needed to be blazed. Funny, defiant, and alive with erotic energy.
The case against
Molly Bolt never loses an argument, never doubts herself, and never meets a woman who can resist her; that makes her a banner, and banners are thin company for a whole novel. The structure is picaresque without shape, episodes accumulating until the book simply stops. Its importance is real. The prose was always doing less work than the courage.
Romance · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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