Now Molly Knows

by Merrill Joan Gerber

Fiction

Genres: Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Prize-winning novelist and short story writer who has published seven novels — among them King Of The World, which won the Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award for an "important and unusual book of literary distinction," and The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for "the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme" — as well as five volumes of short stories, nine young adult novels, and three books of non-fiction.

Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in literary journals such as The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, The Southwest Review, Shenandoah, The Chattahoochee Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

She has published essays in The American Scholar, Commentary, The Sewanee Review, Salmagundi and The Writer.

She earned her M.A. in English from Brandeis University and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in junior high school (yea, I'm that old) and I remember tittering w/ my friends about the "sex parts". I remember one of my teachers getting a hold of it & asking me if she could read it. I let her. Who was I to tell an adult no? Boy, did she raise a stink! She even contacted my mom b/c she thought it was inappropriate. Mom told she bought it & knew I was reading it. Uh oh, egg on your face Mrs. Griner!!

[CherieLynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I happened to think of this book yesterday while talking to my husband about my childhood. I read this book when I was 11 or 12 years old. I got it from a neighborhood drug store. It was a coming of age book for me and I loved the storyline. For me it was an age of innocence in the late 60's. It was a time in the world where kids didn't grow up fast and were not exposed to so much at an early age. I totally enjoyed this book!

[Linda · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like the previous reviewer said, this book was an introduction to growing up for me. Thinking back now it was a really bad book, but it had an incredible influence anyway.

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. Not a terrible book. I dont think Ill read it again but I liked reading it.

[Wendi Enright · Rating 2 out of 5]

Copyright 1974. From the jacket: "...a novel about a girl's sexual discovery in America of the '50's." It was probably more interesting of a read in a 1974.