Rita Mae Brown

Praise for Rubyfruit Jungle

Molly is as vivid and funny as Huckleberry Finn. Back in the late 1970s everyone in the Women's Collective at uni had read Rubyfruit, which is why Rita in Educating Rita is so named. It provoked snobbe ...

Guardian

The breakthrough lesbian novel

Washington Post

Tough-talking, tenderhearted

New York Times

Molly is as vivid and funny as Huckleberry Finn. Back in the late 1970s everyone in the Women's Collective at uni had read Rubyfruit, which is why Rita in Educating Rita is so named. It provoked snobbe ...

Guardian

The breakthrough lesbian novel

Washington Post

Tough-talking, tenderhearted

New York Times

Molly is as vivid and funny as Huckleberry Finn. Back in the late 1970s everyone in the Women's Collective at uni had read Rubyfruit, which is why Rita in Educating Rita is so named. It provoked snobbe ...

Guardian

The breakthrough lesbian novel

Washington Post

Tough-talking, tenderhearted

New York Times