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Applesauce is a 1966 novel by June Arnold. It is a work of feminist literature with an avant-garde and experimental style, including an unreliable narrator, a non-linear narrative, and unconventional semiotics and orthography. The novel's themes include gender, androgyny, motherhood, suicide, and substance abuse.
“For years she was too little to run out by herself because something might happen to her, until she was too big because the other thing might happen.”
“[Gus] sat still but barely listened, because he was watching Jo's face and body for landmarks, tiny forgotten expressions and expressionless gestures which would connect the stranger sitting here now (surprisingly aged) with the other people he had known over the past quarter-century who went by that name and face.”
“Beginning at birth, [Gus] thought, the project [is] myself. How build a man not allowed to be a man.”
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