Category: Fiction

Margaret Erhart | Old Love | From Publishers Weekly

With mixed results, Erhart (Augusta Cotton, 1992) uses five first-person narrators to explore issues of sexual identity and

Stephanie Grant | Map of Ireland | In 1974, when Ann Ahern begins her junior year of high school, South Boston is in crisis — Catholic mothers are blockading buses to keep Black childr

Ann Allen Shockley | Celebrating Hotchclaw | Alice Walker (The Color Purple) wrote of Loving Her ‘ : ‘In its exploration of a daring subject boldly shared I think (the novel)?.enab

Clemence Dane | Regiment Of Women | Regiment of Women is the debut novel of Winifred Ashton writing as Clemence Dane. First published in 1917, the novel has gained some notoriety due to

Jenny Mckean-Tinker | Take A Deep Breath | The impetuous Josie falls madly in love with Linda when they meet at a party. Ignoring the warnings of a mutual friend that Linda is straight, she bur

Lillian Smith | Strange Fruit | One of the very earliest paperback Lesbian novels published in America. Also one of the earliest Signet books, whose numbering started at 660. Wonderf

Cameron Abbott | An Inexpressible State Of Grace | Dissatisfied in her marriage and haunted by memories of the woman who broke her heart in college, New York attorney Ashleigh Moore sees the final unra

Nella Larsen | Quicksand | ‘Quicksand’ (1928) is the first novel to give a voice to the sexual desires of a black woman. Helen Crane, the book’s protagonist, is trapped in the c

Terry Wolverton | Stealing Angel | Maggie Seaver is attempting to make peace with losing custody of her daughter, Angel, in the wake of a break-up with the girl’s biological mother, Yol

D.H. Lawrence | The Fox | In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a