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Heartbroken by her big-city experiences, Molly goes back to Coffee Hollow. One day, Alice and Polina argue, and Alice tells her mother that she, too, is sleeping with Molly, prompting Polina to cut Molly out of both their lives. Molly begins an affair with Polina's daughter, Alice. Polina wants to portray a man in their sexual encounters, which turns Molly off. After landing a new job at a publishing company, Molly falls for Polina Bellantoni, an older professor and writer. Holly makes a scene at the burger joint where they both work, resulting in both of them getting fired. This places great strain on her relationship with Holly. She continues waitressing and wins a scholarship to NYU's film school. She wants to get ahead on her own merits. Though she initially finds a willing partner in this setup, Molly backs out. Holly, financially supported by being the lover of another woman, suggests Molly find a similar arrangement.

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After a series of unfulfilling sexual encounters at the city's rough-and-tumble lesbian bars, Molly starts dating an African American woman named Holly. Molly eventually gets an apartment and a job waitressing. With her relationship with Carrie now at a point of total estrangement, Molly hitchhikes to New York City, where she briefly lives on the streets. In high school, they sleep together-Molly's first experience with a man-after he confesses that he has been having sexual encounters with an older man. Though their newfound identities clash, Molly and Leroy try to remain friends.

Leroy, meanwhile, continues to be rough around the edges. Molly grows up and, refining both her intelligence and wit, she falls in with the rich kids. Molly starts at a new school and sees for the first time the class differences between the rich and poor in Coffee Hollow, everyone was poor, but in Fort Lauderdale, things are different. Molly and her family, along with Leroy and his family, relocate to Fort Lauderdale. Devastated at having to leave her first love, Molly breaks the news to Leota, and they sleep together before Molly moves away. Shortly thereafter, Molly's parents tell her they are moving to Florida. The girls go into the woods after school every day to kiss. When she is in the sixth grade, Molly has her first crush on another girl, her classmate Leota B. Carrie informs her that boys and girls aren't allowed to sleep in the same bed, which only confuses Molly. Molly, however, will have none of it.Īfter Broccoli's mother dies of cancer, Molly asks if she can sleep beside her friend to comfort him. She much prefers playing in the dirt and roughhousing to feminine pursuits, much to Carrie’s consternation, who tries to get Molly to conform. She finds solace in playing with her mentally-challenged cousin, Leroy, and torturing her classmate Earl Stambach. Weighted down with this information, Molly grows up feeling distinctly different from everyone around her. Molly was adopted her real mother is the town tramp, Ruby Drollinger. Miss Martin tells Molly's mother, Carrie, and Carrie is so incensed that she reveals a secret Molly had not known until this point. She charges her classmates a nickel to look at it and a dime to touch it, and though her little moneymaking venture is successful, her teacher, Miss Martin, puts a stop to it.

Seven years old, smart, and sassy, Molly sees a chance to make some money after she glimpses her friend Broccoli Detwiler's penis. It follows Molly Bolt from her childhood in the backwoods Pennsylvania town of Coffee Hollow to Florida to New York City and back again. One of the first mainstream American novels to deal openly with lesbianism, Rubyfruit Jungle has become a classic of LGBT literature. Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) is a coming-of-age novel by American author Rita Mae Brown.

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