Jaret and Peggy have their troubles, like any couple, and the supporting characters, like Jaret’s parents and moody brother, bring out a real touch to the novel. Happy Endings has amazingly real characters. And when one bitter, angry young man learns of their secret, he uses it as an excuse to brutally violate Jaret, turning the girl’s worlds upside down. They know that, if their affair were to be found out, they would face major prejudice. The two are happy with each other and their relationship, but are only out to a few people like Kay, Jaret’s feminist mother, and Bianca, their friend who introduced them. She is also in the midst of a love affair with former classmate, Peggy Danziger. In Gardener’s Point, a small narrow-minded town, Jaret Tyler is enjoying her summer before going to college. Though it’s almost four decades later, the book still hits home the prejudices, sexism, and hatred against gays and lesbians, and the plight of gays was just being acknowledged to the nation. In 1978, a lesbian novel was published by Sandra Scoppettone, called Happy Endings Are All Alike.
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