Marianna Marlowe earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. After devoting many years to academic writing, she now focuses on creative nonfiction that explores issues such as gender identity, motherhood, feminism, and cultural hybridity. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Breasts

An Essay

by Marianna Marlowe

I’d never seen my mother’s breasts. Or anyone else’s, for that matter. I was a late bloomer, and at twelve my own breasts were still nascent. All of which explains why I was staring with such intensity at the ones, naked and pale, in front of me.

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