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Faithful Rebecca

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Rebecca's lover Sagana steals Rebecca's child and takes off for a commune of Amazons in upstate New York. Rebecca follows her to recover the child and gets involved with a group that Rush Limbaugh would have been justified in calling Feminazis. Later, for no apparent reason, the child dies, and Rebecca decides that being a mother wasn't a good idea anyway. I think we are meant to see a woman starting off as wanton and seductive and abandoning stereotypical ornamental and maternal female roles as she becomes stronger and more mature.

It is badly constructed and never really coheres as a novel. The upstate New York scenes are set in a kind of sword-and-sorcery fantasyland (maybe that is the way Manhattanites think of upstate) and even the Manhattan scenes lack any nitty-gritty realism and often merge into daydreams and confusing flashbacks

This is Eidus juvenilia (published in 1987) probably of interest to Eidus fans who are interested in her development as a writer. Some may be turned on by the kinky erotic scenes which are, shall I say, unusual.