num_pages: 220
description: No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders with her Freedom Riding sympathies. As a young woman in the 1960s and '70s, she hypnotizes her way to Harvard, finds herself as a lesbian, then very nearly loses herself to booze and shamans. And though the wry, rebellious, and vision-haunted heroine of this exhilarating novel may sometimes seem to be living a magnolia-scented Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Blanche McCrary Boyd's The Revolution of Little Girls is a completely original arid captivating work.
language: English
title: The Revolution of Little Girls
titlecomplete: The Revolution of Little Girls (Ellen Burns, #1)
genres: Literature, Feminism, Queer, Novels, Coming Of Age, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, Lesbian
ratings_count: 368
series: Ellen Burns
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Ferro-Grumley Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group