Of Lena Geyer by Marcia Davenport
Marcia Davenport | Of Lena Geyer | Well-known novel of the life of an opera singer. Lena has a young satellite and adorer, but Elsie is careful to say that while “gossip has had many cr
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange | Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo | Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo is the story of three ‘colored girls,’ three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the ol
Cousin Bette by Professor Honoré de Balzac
Professor Honoré 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 Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) by Sylvia Bertin
Sylvia Bertin | The Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) | Story of Paula, a member of a French provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated as a matter of course … that she wears trouse
Not One Day by Anne Garréta
Anne Garréta | Not One Day | “What’s to be done with our inclinations?” asks Anne Garréta in the first sentence of her newest book, Not One Day. The text that ensues is an explora
The Empress of the Seven Oceans by Fiona Cooper
Fiona Cooper | The Empress of the Seven Oceans | ‘It is the swashbuckling seventeenth century, and witch-burning and superstition are sweeping England. Puritanism and paranoia abound. An old soak sal
Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme by Adolphe Belot
Adolphe Belot | Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme | ‘The sensational Mademoiselle Giraud, my Wife (originally published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose
The Looking Glass Heart by Myron Brinig
Myron Brinig | The Looking Glass Heart | Beautiful Sally Greenshields has grown accustomed to be spoiled. Her striking green eyes and stuffing good looks are traded for accommodations made fo
Sappho’s Wild Lesbians by Emily George
Emily George | Sappho’s Wild Lesbians | ‘This book belongs to all the lesbians who were on the beach Lesbos during summer of 83.’
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Whether they are sleeping in the bamboo huts
Jam on the Vine by LaShonda Katrice Barnett
LaShonda Katrice Barnett | Jam on the Vine | Recall your first reading of a favorite book: pulse quickening with resonance, your fascination with this new, yet familiar, world fueled by desire to