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 Love in Good Time
 The world of the Robson family is a complicated mixture of suffocation and strength, and Claire's parents' lives are as small and safe as they can make them. A mother who wants her daughter to fulfill her own dreams and a daughter who wants to be everything her mother is not—both may love each other, but neither understands the other. Claire Robson escapes her village and her family through a scholarship to university, where she easily becomes a hippie, marries the son of a family far wealthier than her own, and plunges headlong into domesticity. But before long she leaves her husband and rides her motorcycle straight into the lesbian community to become first a squatter, then a school principal.
This memoir reads like a novel, and is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreakingly poignant. It is a coming out story that tackles the trade-offs some gay people make after they leave the closet and choose acceptance instead of activism, work instead of sex, success instead of happiness, and silence instead of truth.
While this may not seem to be everyone's story, the author's courage, honesty, warmth, and humor make it an unquestionably universal one.
"Claire Robson has written a warm family saga and an equally moving coming out story. She has shown us how the exceptional can be woven into the ordinary with patience and love. The writing in this book is deft and beautiful. This is a story for everyone." |
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| "A deft, loving, and insightful recounting of the formative decades of an extraordinary ordinary life. Far from indulging in the current fashion in women's memoir for dissecting one's victimhood, Robson's sly good humor and iconoclasm shine a clear and unapologetic light on the quixotic process of becoming an independent, entirely functional, self-accepting queer adult. From her misbegotten marriage to her arrest as a housing squatter, from schoolyard taunts to lesbian bed death, the healing power of women's basketball to grieving a dead parent, Robson is unflinching, funny, touching, and intimate in her disclosures. Reading her memoir of coming into her own as a lesbian, a woman, and a human being is like the best sort of stories friends tell friends over innumerable pots of tea." |
— Hanne Blank
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Love in Good Time
0-87013-694-1, $24.95
September 2003
www.msupress.msu.edu |
