Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America - and living happily ever after. Critcally acclaimed when it was first publshed in 1973, Rubyfruit Jungle has only grown in reputation as it reaches new generations of readers

Molly Bolt is one of the most feisty, irrepressible heroines of modern literature. Illegitimate, irreverent, lesbian - and comfortable about it - she shocks and scandalizes people wherever she goes. Starting with her life as a child, her adolescence - when she discovers that only women give her that peculiar feeling in her stomach - to University where she is expelled for 'moral turpitude', to New York where the art set love her, despise her and try to buy her. Throughout it all, Molly remains true to herself. A very funny, uplifting, and sometimes sad book, that helps to re-enforce the faith that we should all have in our own values and our own being. Highly recommended.

"I found myself laughing hysterically, then sobbing uncontrollably just moments later. A powerful story ... A truly incredible book." The Boston Globe

"Molly Bolt is a genuine descendant -- genuine female descendant -- of Huckleberry Finn. And Rita Mae Brown is, like Mark Twain, a serious writer who gets her messages across through laughter." Donna E. Shalala

246 pages