Book summary

In this memoir, Kate Millett, author of "Sexual Politics" details the formative events of her youth. In the late 1950s, her wealthy, glamorous, aesthete Aunt Dorothy presented a cash gift which enabled her to study at Oxford, but with strings attached. Millett was made to promise never to see her female lover, Jaycee, again. Needless to say, she chose not to trade her love in for Oxford, and brought Jaycee along with her. Millett candidly recounts the reverberations of her decision, her family life choked by money, her closeted sexuality, the great Irish divide between peasants and immigrants, and her struggles as an artist.

Media reviews

"The style of the...book can best be described as flood-of-consciousness, with the combination of introspective candor and maudlin self-indulgence that that implies....Ms. Millett deserves credit...for what must be called her terrible honesty."