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Ann Bannon · 1959
A young woman named Laura escapes her controlling father in Chicago and moves to New York City seeking independence, taking a secretarial job at a radiologist's office where she begins to build a new life. The narrative explores themes of familial conflict, self-discovery, and female autonomy in mid-twentieth-century America.
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What this book knows
Desire between women in 1950s Greenwich Village is real, consuming, and worth the cost of shame and secrecy.
desire
You're starving, and somebody puts a feast in front of you. What happens after that is Instinct. Overwhelming. You eat. Or you die of hunger.
AW-RC-073Last night was perfect. It isn't like that very often, I can tell you.
AW-RC-070She wants me to help her, to be with her. She admires me. Dear God, I'm afraid to wonder how much.
AW-RC-077shame
An endless bitter reviewing of what her father had done to her; the impotent fury and shame that besieged her.
AW-RC-089When you look at me, I get the feeling that I make you sad. Do I? Laura's nails cut into her smooth white forehead.
AW-RC-075self-and-identity
That terrible storm brewing inside her made her feel as if she might do any wild thing that her body demanded of her. She was afraid.
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