Rubyfruit Jungle Flowers & Plants A retired Black college professor

A retired Black college professor teaching at a predominately white high school is kidnapped and forced to witness an unthinkable horror

who make their paths and move invisibly

aunties coming to plait hair

to female pleasure

Rubyfruit Jungle Flowers & Plants A retired Black college professor"The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt or Rita Mae Brown, who created her I urge you to read and thank them both." Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award A landmark coming of age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its