Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir - Paperback

by Maureen Seaton (Author)

Sex Talks to Girls chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids. Recasting herself in this memoir as "Molly Meek," Maureen Seaton interprets the emergence of Molly's identity in luxurious and very funny prose. Molly alternately finds herself in the surprising company of winos, swingers, and drag kings; in love with Jesus H. Christ and a butch named Mars; in charge of two children; writing stories that shrink painfully to poems without her permission; and incapable of figuring out how she landed in any of these predicaments. She is, by turns, a little saint, a Stepford wife, a bi-mom, and a femme with super powers. Her transformation-from near-nun to full-fledged sexual being, accidentally becoming conscious in the process and delighting in the spree-is the story of a life set on play and a woman heroically committed to seeing it through. Winner, Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Foundation Book Awards

Author Biography

Maureen Seaton is an award-winning poet whose nineteen solo and collaborative collections include Fibonacci Batman, Furious Cooking, Venus Examines Her Breast, Caprice (with Denise Duhamel), Stealth (with Samuel Ace), Sinéad O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds (with Neil de la Flor), and Two Thieves and a Liar (with Neil de la Flor and Kristine Snodgrass). She is a professor of English at the University of Miami, where she teaches creative writing.