The garden.

Description:

A coming of age book in the late 1950's in a plush New England women' college, where girls in Bermuda shorts and pageboys are trying to lose their virginity despite the lack of men. Two girls especially, the narrator and The Blossom, the girl who becomes her closest friend after the suicide of another girl they both knew, are totally boy-crazy, full of sexual energy and bound to each other. One is the "uintellectual" force of the duo, the other the physical. The first writes essays for the second, who will punch out any girl who threatens her friend. These two, in the era of Elvis, rotate their hips, jump on each other, adore each other, can't live without each other and yet - they are not lesbians. They are girls in love who need to find an object. This short novel is an exploration of a love rarely probed in fiction, between two girls who need each other just in order to BE; who love each other but are holding their sexual love in wait for a man - either of their dreams, or just the first one to come along.

subjects: Fiction,  Girls' schools,  Lesbian college students,  Women's colleges

Places: Vermont