The Question of Sabotage

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Summary: Dancing at the revolution
Review: Ceci accompanies an acquaintance to the Amazon Womyn's Music Festival. Ceci is a young woman and daughter of Holocaust survivors who is slowly edging into lesbian life, so she's totally overwhelmed at first. When the opening night's entertainment is sabotaged, her acquaintance suspects Ceci. Irritated, Ceci sets out to solve the mystery, but gets sidetracked when she meets Trudy, who shares her heritage. The two women begin exploring a relationship, and stumble upon the saboteur. Morris uses her extensive knowledge of women's music festivals to give this tale a rich, loving tone. There are many themes here, and it's unfortunate that the book is so short (134 pages!) because I would love to hear more about everyone featured here. This brevity works against the story on some levels, but overall Morris's style wins out by creating a passionate book of coming out in a sea of naked lesbians at a summer music festival. I wish I could go, too!

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Summary: Avoid this book
Review: Unless you want to read a political rant thinly disguised as a novel, don't buy this book. There is very little story here and what there is borders on being silly. I thought I was going to be reading about a woman discovering herself. That certainly isn't what happened. What you will get is a lesson in what a women's festival is supposed to be about (according to this author), the divisions among lesbians, racism, male bashing and some extended gnashing of teeth about daughters of Holocaust survivors. The main conclusion I came away with was that, if this is how women's festivals are conducted, I'm glad I haven't been to one. The "mystery" in this has a ridiculous conclusion. None of the characters are well developed. This book isn't worth the cost, even at the used price. It took me about two hours to read the whole thing. I'm disappointed that Amazon recommended this turkey. Save your money.