Any Minute I Can Split

by Judith Rossner

From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar—after running away to a commune, Margaret Adams discovers the joys, burdens and limits of family.

When Margaret Adams, 250 pounds and pregnant, decides to leave her life behind and take to the open road on a motorcycle stolen from her nutty husband Roger, she doesn’t know where her future will take her. Quickly she meets David, a withdrawn nineteen-year-old hitchhiker who leads her to a communal farm in Vermont. There she discovers an unusual makeshift family who teach her about herself, her relationships, and the joys and burdens of the family you choose and the family that chooses you.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work, she continued to write. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a troubled young woman and her psychoanalyst who has emotional troubles of her own.

Reviews

[Caitlin Miller]

My friend selected this for me at a used book shop. I was skeptical at first but thoroughly enjoyed this quick read! Who doesn't dream of taking off for a bit of adventure without any real plan? Maybe not on a motorcycle trip while nine months pregnant with twins and going into labor as soon as you arrive at a commune full of strangers but this story and book, now 50 years old, seemed quite plausible for the 70's.

[Molly Lamson]

This was a good book - very 70's. Quick read.

[Rick]

Utterly bizarre feminist nonsense about an obese woman pregnant with twins who abandons her husband; she suddenly decides to "split" by stealing his motorcycle to live on a commune in Vermont. She picks up a young boy named DeWitt on the way and is sexually aroused by watching "young boys" undress. The more I read of Rossner the more I'm concluding she's a "one-hit wonder" because all of her books are strange, uncomfortable, unrelatable and terribly slow.