In her latest Back in the Stacks blog, Cataloging Specialist Jan Hardy reviews Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir by Maureen Seaton, available now in our library catalog.
Seaton’s writing is full of surprising metaphors and quick witticisms, describing mistakes extravagantly made and lessons learned the hard way. As a girl, she blunders through religious fervor, intense affection for her girlfriend, anorexia, pills, and budding alcoholism. Her parents move to Queens, where the basement wet bar provides “ideal inspiration for the start of my life as a saint with a taste for highballs.” At least, she starts to eat again “to prepare for my nights of drinking.” As Seaton notes caustically, “alcohol saved my life.”
Read more in the Back in the Stacks blog.