Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg | Drag King Dreams | From Publishers Weekly
After a harrowing encounter with a bigot on the PATH train, Max Rabinowitz, drag king and bouncer, quarrels with cross-dres
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Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
Helen Zahavi | Dirty Weekend | Bella lives alone in a basement flat. A man threatens rape and mutilation. Trapped and afraid, she finds a way out by adopting a hard and ancient logi
Trip Sheets by Ellen Hawley
Ellen Hawley | Trip Sheets | The publisher’s description of Trip Sheets as ‘funny’ does a disservice to a thoughtful, realistic novel about desire and uncertainty. When Cat
Around the Houses by Amanda Boulter
Amanda Boulter | Around the Houses | Anna is an ordinary woman in an extraordinary situation. She’s having a baby, the father’s gay, her lover’s a woman and she still hasn’t told her pare
I Am You by Ilham Mansour
Ilham Mansour | I Am You | A groundbreaking work which was first published in Beirut in the year 2000 by Riad el-Rayyes, I Am You (Ana Hiya Anti) is the only novel in Arabic whi
Eyes of Gray by Dani O’Connor
Dani O’Connor | Eyes of Gray | Grayson Thomas was the typical college senior with typical friends, a typical job and typical insecurities about her future. One Sunday morning, Gray’
Offseason by Naomi Holoch
Naomi Holoch | Offseason | Miriam, a translator of French fiction and a former academic, has been in love with her mysterious and apparently heterosexual (as in married to a man
Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw
Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australian rival. From there, Anshaw intricately traces thr
Heartbreak on the High Sierra by Fiona Cooper
Fiona Cooper | Heartbreak on the High Sierra | ‘`I heard there was a place a woman could hang her hat up without any trash bothering her.’ This is the wary hope of the enigmatic, world-weary report
Old Love by Margaret Erhart
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