Shoulders by Georgia Cotrell
Georgia Cotrell | Shoulders | Shoulders is about coming of age in Texas in the 1970s when you’re dewy-eyed and brash and a lesbian. Shoulders is about making it through to the ’80s
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Seraphita by Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac | Seraphita | Balzac begins with a travelogue of the fiords of Norway, concentrating ultimately on one valley that is isolated by the roaring waters of the Sieg Riv
Intimate Story by Rose Franken
Rose Franken | Intimate Story | The petticoated pitfalls of the woman alone, afraid to trespass on her children’s lives, unsure of her own, this has of course the expected womanly wa
A Love Affair by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | A Love Affair | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was not only a sculptor; she was a patron of the arts who founded the Whitney Museum in New York. She is also remembered f
Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez
Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse | Steppenwolf | Contains highly sympathetic homosexual characters (male and female)
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With its generous helpings of sex and drugs, its darkly romantic urban
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
Ann-Marie Macdonald | Fall on Your Knees | Fall on Your Knees, award-winning actor and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sprawling and powerful first novel, reads like a literary soap ope
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon
The Rains Came by Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she