June Akers Seese s second novel is about
books and the people who read them: it s
about a rare-book dealer and his mistress,
set in that era when words like mistress
were still used, and recalling the years
when Lenny Bruce, Edith Piaf, and Freud
might share the same paragraph in an after-
bonrs night spot. Seese writes movingly,
tightly, without recourse to adjeetives,
from the gut and to the gut.
The scenes shift from libraries to bed-
rooms and everything is qnestioned:
discount houses, abortion, singles bars,
black power, and old age. The places shift
from Detroit to New York to San Francisco,
from the mid- 1950s to the beginning of the
counterculture 60s. While in San Fran-
cisco, Kate McGhee--the mistress and
narrator--listens to an unknown singer
named Janis Joplin.
With close attention to detail, Seese
recaptures that time whcn the first stirrings
of feminism would call into qnestion many
of the assumptions and values women like
Kate were raised ender and, often enongh,
buried under. More than anything, Seese s
characters crave reality and the strength to
endure it.
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