I chose this book because it was one of my favorites from last month. I had never read Zink before, but am now a huge fan. She takes what are definitely sensitive subjects, like homosexuality in the 50s and 60s and race relations in the 60s and 70s and passing (!) for black (!) in the south (!) and writes about them with both pathos and humor.
The main character of the book is Peggy, who realized in high school that she loved women and wanted to love women. She began dressing in masculine clothing and went to a liberal all-girls school. However, at that school, she ends up having an affair. With a professor. With a homosexual, male professor. Neither of them being experience with birth control, Peggy ends up pregnant. And she and Lee, her professor, end up married.
Peggy eventually flees her marriage with her young daughter and in an attempt to hide them both, decides to pass as black. In the South. In the 60s. Again, somehow, Zink manages to handle all of these issues deftly and often amusingly. It's such a well written book, I recommend it to everyone.
As for my outfit, I wore a vintage dress layered over pants to demonstrate the duality of Peggy's position as both a lesbian and a wife and mother:
I chose this specific dress because although it's printed with roses, they're scribbled roses so it's not too sweet:
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| Dress: vintage thrifted Pants: LOFT Turtleneck: hinge via Nordstrom Shoes: Bettye by Bettye Muller |
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Happy Friday, All!
Gracey
