![]() ![]() All of these books are written for an audience that has either experienced sex or held long familiarity with it as an idea. Colette’s entire oeuvre Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary” Choderlos de Laclos’s “Les Liaisons dangereuses” Anais Nin’s fantastically disturbing erotica - is there something about the French? - and on, and on. Some of it is good, and most of it is appropriately dark and twisty. There is, I have learned as an adult, quite a lot of fiction about women’s experience of sex and sexuality. ![]() When I return to my childhood bedroom now, if I remove “Smart Women” from the shelf, the glue from the book’s binding flakes off in my hands. “Summer Sisters,” “Smart Women” and the infamous “Forever”: I lent them to friends, the covers fell off, the spines broke, whole sections fell out. ![]() Three of Blume’s novels for older teenagers and adults, which also ended up on my bookshelf through the canniness of my mother, became my high school gospel. ![]()
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