Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Seaton’s brief, sometimes half-page, chapters provide telling glimpses of moments and people recalled in the bumpy, often funny journey of alter ego Molly Meek as she moves from adoration of Jesus to adoration of anything alcoholic to sobriety and artistic success. Seaton/Molly does her best to raise small daughters Clio and Sophie (both destined for alcoholism and eventual sobriety) after divorcing alcoholic husband Harper. At an AA dance she meets Charles Bronson–like Jamie, a combination “Chef of Blasé” and “Eagle Scout”—long-haired, strong, “quietly charismatic.” They are living in a tiny attic apartment with the girls, ages 7 and 13 in 1984, when now-sober and successful Harper and his second wife—“a formidable Wall Street couple”—woo the children away with visions of affluent consumerism. Molly is heartbroken. Before leaving Jamie, who has introduced her to porn and swinging sex, she works out her sexual identity, eventually falling for super-butch Mars, whom she initially mistakes for a man. Tears, laughter, separations, booze, interracial lesbian love—just like in the movies. --Whitney Scott