Scags is a character but also a series of stories that tell of a woman’s awakenings throughout her lifetime, from child to mature adult.
While we have read novels that are called “coming of age” novels, in the Scags Series I have designed a set of fictional accounts of four distinct periods in a woman’s life that reflect the various awakenings in the following ways:
1. As a child, she learns what a child needs to know about the fallibility of adults and that she will survive the adult’s weaknesses
2. As an adolescent, leaving home for the first time, she discovers the tools she needs to be in the world on an intellectual, sexual and political basis
3. As an adult, struggling to understand what success leads to, she pursues some unconventional routes that lead to an understanding of both human and spiritual love
4. As a middle-aged woman, she reflects on how she has arrived at this turning point in life, using most of what she has built for herself to pursue greater risks in seeking the greater good of others
Each of the novels proceeds through all four seasons, beginning in the summer. Each as well is told in a different first-person format: first-person present tense, diary format, epistolary and finally in a form that allows for a continuous narrative (memoir).
Scags at 7 (2008)
Scags at 18 (2011)
Scags at 30 (planned for publication in 2014)
Scags at 45 (planned for publication in 2015)