I read this book, that kind of hit it really well. I don't remember what it was called but it was about this woman going through a divorce with her husband (they have sex in the beginning), she goes to stay with her mother (she is adopted) who is blind, deaf, and mute. She meets this guy from high school, or something, and falls in love. I forget what the big scary climax thing was...something about a feud between her adopted family and her birth family? Anyway, it was a really good book.
And what I really liked about it was that she was sexual - she had sex with two different characters, and you didn't feel uncomfortable with it at all (in fact, I'm pretty sure the book starts where she's having sex with her soon-to-be-ex-husband), but her sexual...ity? doesn't rule her life. She does other things, like translate ASL and visit her mother and stuff.
I don't know if that makes sense at all. But I can try to find the book for you, if you like? I'm a crap writer so I can't help you with my own experiences...but I'm pretty positive that this book does what you're talking about really successfully.
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Date: 2012-11-03 04:25 pm (UTC)From:And what I really liked about it was that she was sexual - she had sex with two different characters, and you didn't feel uncomfortable with it at all (in fact, I'm pretty sure the book starts where she's having sex with her soon-to-be-ex-husband), but her sexual...ity? doesn't rule her life. She does other things, like translate ASL and visit her mother and stuff.
I don't know if that makes sense at all. But I can try to find the book for you, if you like? I'm a crap writer so I can't help you with my own experiences...but I'm pretty positive that this book does what you're talking about really successfully.