Camptown Ladies by Mari SanGiovanni
The Santora family returns in SanGiovanni’s sequel — more chaos, more comedy, and more of the Italian-American family that can’t quite get out of its own way.
The Santora family returns in SanGiovanni’s sequel — more chaos, more comedy, and more of the Italian-American family that can’t quite get out of its own way.
Fighting the good fight, and saving the day
An aging lesbian and a brilliant girl navigate family secrets and Southern grudges.
Our History in New York by Linsey Abrams follows a single year in the lives of narrator Chloe, her long-time lover Helen, and their mostly lesbian and gay friends. The novel moves through pregnancy by insemination, a political campaign, AIDS, romance, and aging — the full texture of a community navigating life at the end … Read more
Linsey Abrams‘ debut novel chronicles one girl’s coming of age from a 1950s childhood into the New York of the 1960s. A love affair with another woman sets off a profound reckoning with identity and self. Ms. Magazine compared it to Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, and The New York Times praised Abrams’ distinctive voice, calling her … Read more
It is widely analyzed by queer scholars for its ‘Boston Marriage’ dynamics
A New Yorker staff writer chronicles her unconventional life as a lesbian journalist who traveled the world, married a woman, became pregnant at 37, and experienced devastating losses that forced her to confront what she could and couldn’t control.