Kinflicks

Follow Ginny Babcock from adolescence through the 1950s and 1960s in Hullsport, a small town in Tennessee. Ginny keeps reinventing herself, taking on the beliefs, causes, daily habits, and even the sexual identity of whichever partner she is currently with.

The novel examines the narrow set of roles open to women in that decade, moving from the cheerleader to the biker's girlfriend, from the militant lesbian to the self-sacrificing mother figure. Each role, the story suggests, reveals something about the expectations of the society that produced it, and the tone shifts between sharp humor and sorrow.