by Maureen F. McHugh
Pretty sure from the plot description that I've read this before, have to pick it up in person to see...
Stayed up way later than I should have finishing this!It's not so much "what happened" - actually, the book is fairly low on "plot" - rather, it follows the (rather traumatic and itinerant) life of a woman from a primitive society on a colony planet, from the brink of womanhood to middle age, along ...
This was really good for most of the book, and then it was just really long. I think I'd have given it another star if it had just ended sooner.