""In those days in the early Sixties we were not women yet but girls. This was, without irony, perceived as our advantage. " So begins I'll Take You There, an astonishingly intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a nameless young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. ". "Funny, mordant, and compulsive, "Anellia" (as she sometimes calls herself) falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead. ". "Pitiless in exposing the follies of the time (the bizarre "sisterhood" of sororities, the self-lacerating extremes of the intellectual life), I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks - and curious rewards - of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain type of contemporary female intellectual. "--BOOK JACKET.