An outspoken, outrageous, original and outlandish debut novel from an outstanding new writer. Growing up is not easy when your mother is a figurehead for feminism and the most famous lesbian in the world. All her life, Molly Flynn has been intrigued, entertained, alarmed and exasperated by her mother Augustas increasingly bizarre claims about who she is and where she came from. Now, as Molly sets off down Americas West Coast to confront her estranged husband and serve him divorce papers, she looks back on her strange and unconventional childhood in a series of entertaining flashbacks. But Molly will be waylaid on her journey from Seattle to California, and sidetracked - with dramatic, surprising, hilarious and unexpected results.