Scarlett Greene

Leaving behind her Southern accent, her eccentric, slovenly family, and 25 pounds, teenaged Scarlett heads north to college in this funny, ribald tale. As picaresque as the story of a respectable girl in the early 1960s could be, this follows her role changes from premed grind to adoring fiancee, from contented wife to single mother in a hippy commune. When the struggle to maintain herself and her half-black son almost becomes too much, her crusty physician grandfather proves to be more generous than she thought possible and lets her see herself again as a valued and competent person. Zestily written, this is a highly recommended novel by the author of Family Trappings . Christine M. Hill, Free Lib. of Philadelphia