Posted on November 2, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Well, no wonder Judy Blume wrote about adolescence so compellingly.

Turns out, unsurprisingly, she lived it in all of its confusion, anticipation, anxiety, fear, envy ... etc.

That's evident in her contribution to the new anthology Our Red Book: Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing & Changing, which just came out yesterday.

Read a passage from Blume's essay about her first menstrual period in Literary Hub.

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