Menstruation: The Bloody Reality

February 10, 2014

Menstruation wound up having an important presence in my novel ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE. The story alternates between two different time periods, and the subject flows (sorry, couldn’t resist) in both Olive’s story at the turn of the 20th century, and Amanda’s story at the turn of the 21st. Why did I include this rather messy subject that is usually kept out of polite conversation as well as public discourse in my novel? After all,...