Kellogg, Marjorie | Kellogg, Marjorie 1922–
Kellogg, Marjorie 1922–
An American novelist and social worker, Miss Kellogg is the author of Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon.
In the course of reading Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, I went through a series of emotions: first repulsion, then concern, then amusement—finally I was moved. The key to this transformation is, I think, the fact that the author has had the courage to make her "freaks" as different from us as they are similar to us. The latter is the easy part. Nothing human is alien to me: this is middle-class liberal doctrine today. It's the differences that count. Junie Moon's acid scars are only the top layer. But the scar tissue does not conceal any marshmallow center. Junie manages to be both tough-minded and womanly. Arthur's progressive neurological disease may just possibly be a willed malady in the form of a slow death. And Warren is as infantile in his behavior as if paraplegics were only children who...
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