Scags at 7

Scags lives in Skokie, Illinois in 1958. The story she tells takes place during her summer vacation when she is 7 years old. Her best friend, Julia, is away at camp. Her new friend, Davy, is a boy and somewhat of a bother but better than being alone all day long. Her Pops is her favorite adult as well as her father and something is wrong with him During this long summer vacation Scags begins to understand some of it and some of it she will never understand.

Literature & Fiction

Emin, Deborah

Contemporary

Sullivan Street Press

The second volume in the Scags Series, Scags is now at college and finding out about love, sex and politics. These three ingredients of life lead her to also discover the deeper meanings of friendship, heartbreak and loss.

Scags at 18

Literary

Scags at 30 is the third volume in the Scags Series. Now she is in New York City to work at the job of her dreams, to find the love of her life and to become a part of the cultural scene. Yet, with each of these wishes comes the opposite problem. A job that won't allow her to be out as a lesbian; a lover who has lots of secrets; and a very male-centric world to contend with. Scags at 30 is written as an epistolary novel, continuing the first-person formats that she has used in the previous volumes (Scags at 7, first person present-tense vignettes; Scags at 18, a diary). In 1981, she also finds something she had not expected to find, a faith in God. Introduced by her ex-nun lover, Margaret, to a group of lesbians who go to a church that has welcomed the LGBT community, Scags is in a constant struggle to know who she is and where she belongs. The overriding problem is who she loves and how she can be with those who do not accept that her love has meaning. Whether she is with her work friends, whom she has dubbled the Kultur Klub or the Artist Squatters, a group of young artists trying to make it downtown Manhattan, Scags' quest for acceptance is the underlying mission of this novel. By adding the element of faith into her life, she both has a place to be and another set of problems to solve. All of Scags' troubles become overshadowed as Margaret's secrets change Scags' life irrevocably.

Scags at 30

Scags at 45 is the final volume in the Scags Series in which our eponymous character grows from childhood to adult with all the problems of being female, lesbian and a political activist. This final volume is told as a memoir with a ghost included as well as unfathomable wealth. Scags' journey leads her to find solutions to a major societal problem as well as to her next calling as an artist/writer.

Scags at 45

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Scags at 7

Scags at 18

Scags at 30

Scags at 45