Books
July, 1975
In Norma Jean the Termite Queen (Doubleday), Sheila Ballantyne writes about a woman who finds her counterpart in The Hellstrom Chronicle's bloated, egg-producing queen. As killer insects come in to destroy the termite colony in the film, Norma Jean looks on and sides with the killers. Death would be better, she reasons, than being the baby maker she is, rather than the artist she wants to be. This is a novel with many of the characteristics of a good writer's early work: flashes of brilliance bu...
