Lisa Alther (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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The female characters at the center of Lisa Alther’s fictions have similar experiences. They come from families that are nonsupportive and are dominated by parents with unrealistic expectations for their children. The heroines grow up with the assumption that heterosexuality is the only kind of sex. At some point in the protagonists’ lives they find fulfillment with other women and realize that they are either lesbian or bisexual.
Several of these characters are married and have children. The marriages of these characters break up. At some point in...
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