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Scags at 18, Scags Series

"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, that I had responsibilities.”

The Scags Series
Volume One: Scags at 7
Volume Two: Scags at 18
Volume 3: Scags at 30
Volume 4: Scags at 45

"I loved this book." - Marti

"I find it quite remarkable that Deborah Emin is able to take her original character, Scags at 7, and advance her to the age of 18 with her curious and plucky spirit intact." - Supyr, Goodreads

Deborah Emin

Deborah Emin is the author of the Scags Series, a 4-part exploration of the many ways over a woman’s lifetime that she awakens to who she is and how she is meant to live her life. Told in four different first-person voices, Scags grows from childhood to young adult to adult and then to a not-yet-finished person but one who knows that the quest to understand and find meaningful activity never ends.

Reviewers have praised the Scags series as "clever,""lyrical" and "moving" with the "uncanny ability to capture the voice of a seven year old girl".

Deborah has had poems and short stories published in a number of literary journals and was a reporter for Gay City News, OpEd News and has had numerous stories published on alternet.org, Huffingon Post, Mondoweiss, Thrive and other papers and online zines where her brand of political and literary synthesis has been welcomed.

Keep up with Deborah on Facebook @deborahemin, Twitter @deminlit, or visit her blog at https://deborahemin.com/, and follow her annual road trip: she would love to meet up with you at a bookstore.

Sullivan Street Press