Sex
It's an odd animal: women's literary fiction -- NOT erotica -- with a brazen, sensual and deeply flawed main character. Carmen is perpetually concerned with, touching and baring her body. Yet the sex never becomes the story; it isn't that sort of book.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Bill Maher's new rule for sex education in Arizona
Children gain an enormous amount by being exposed to other family units. Living in another culture, which is what each family is, is enlightening, challenging, scary and often fun.
Cara Santa Maria examines the efficacy of various methods of sex education.