"I made up the name that everyone calls me. I made it up because I didn't like the name Mama gave me when I was born when no one could ask me what I wanted to be called. So I'm called, because I say so, Scags."So begins the revolutionary Scags Series, which spans a woman's life from age 7 to 45, organized around the seasons of a year. The first volume, Scags at 7, is told from the point of view of the 7-year-old Scags who has begun to understand that the much beloved Pops and the overshadowed Mama are not the people who can protect her from the world. Living in a very protected and safe environment of Skokie, Illinois in 1958 is not a bulwark against the turmoil of family life which for a 7 year old is the world. Begin the journey of Scags, a young woman who is as different sounding as her name. Scags sounds like a car horn beeping once to say hello, like a leap into dry leaves all raked up in a pile, or like the sound a dog...

"My fantasies were seedlings that sought a different soil from that in Skokie. I definitely wanted to plant myself in a new place."So continues the second part of the revolutionary Scags Series,which spans a woman's life from age 7 to 45, organized around the seasons of a year. Scags at 18 is set in the fall, at Scags' first semester at the College, in an unnamed New England college, where she writes of her adventures, the political, literary and sexual adventures of a young woman in 1969. Her first semester is filled with much that most young women confront, including a first love, sexual harassment, oversized personal ambitions and the longing for the family at home to be understanding and supportive of her new life.Describing her life in her diary, she lives through her first semester in college in 1969—the age of peace marches, the Beatles, feminism and free love."I never thought that falling in love would also feel like that,...