The Women's Review of Books, January 1st, 2000
Tea, by Stacey D'Erasmo. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000, 317 pp., $2l.95 hardcover.
THE TERM "COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL" always seemed to me a fairly vague rubric until I spent several years reviewing first fiction; after reading many dozens of these works so popular with first novelists, I began to see them almost as a genre. In each, I would anticipate the description of childhood, the sexual awakening, the coming to terms with family and self. I came to feel, though, that if their appeal lies partly in the shared experience, the confirmation of what we know, it lies equa...
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