Crybaby Butch
Judith Frank
Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank’s first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations – a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity.
With Crybaby Butch, Judith Frank creates a deeply human, bravely unsentimental story while at the same time investigating the meaning of butch identity as it reinvents itself from one generation to the next. ~ Carol Anshaw
Fearless and unflinching, Crybaby Butch rigorously explores butch/femme dynamics over two generations. Judy Frank’s debut novel is searing and memorable. ~ Claire Messud
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Details
| ISBN | 1563411431 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Fiction |
| Publication Date | Nov-04 |
| Publisher | Firebrand Books |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 416 |
| Award | Lambda Literary Award – 2004 (Lesbian Debut Fiction); Astraea Foundation’s Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Prize – 2000 (Fiction) |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Award | Lambda Literary Award – 2004 (Lesbian Debut Fiction); Astraea Foundation’s Emerging Lesbian Writers Fund Prize – 2000 (Fiction) |
| BookID | 2578 |
