Category: Fiction

Madelyn Arnold | Bird Eyes | Winner of a Lambda Literary Award on its first publication in 1988, Madelyn Arnold’s brilliant, unflinching depiction of life on the back ward of a me

Jaimy Gordon | Bogeywoman |
Named one of the best books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, Gordon’s novel takes on the difficult subject of a young girl coming of age

May Sarton | Mrs. Stevens Hears The Mermaids Singing | Hilary Stevens is an aging writer asked to recount her poetic inspirations, and we are taken along on this journey of rediscovery. Both subtle and int

Andrea Freud Loewenstein | This Place | Ruth and Candy, prison therapists, try to help Sonya, a tough inmate, and Teleca, a prisoner who lives in a bizarre fantasy world

Jane Rule | After the Fire | Karen Tasuki has only tenuous ties to her Japanese father and Canadian Mother. She has been dismissed by her lover of eight years as ‘boring.’ Now Kar

Valerie Miner | Blood Sisters | Blood Sisters has at its heart two Irish sisters, Gerry and Polly, who grew up steeped in the ideals of the 1916 uprising. Their lives separated when

Elizabeth Stark | Shy Girl | San Francisco’s edgy lesbian culture is the backdrop for this exploration of identity and secret lives. Alta Corral is a butch girl who is hung up on

Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom

Robert Wilder | Wait for tomorrow | The odyssey of Slade Compton in which, after fairly spectacular and sensational episodes, he finds not only himself but also a decent feeling towards

Amanda Boulter | Back Around the Houses |

‘Tales of the city to make you shake, weep, and giggle out loud. I’m already looking forward to the next one.’-Patricia Duncker

The quirky re