Category: Fiction

Lauran Hoffman | Bar Girls | novelization of the author’s film of the same name, which took a look at the ritual of the lesbian dating game

Farzana Doctor | Stealing Nasreen | Stealing Nasreen is a novel about the lives of three very different people, all of whom belong to the same small religious community. Set in Toronto w

Armistead Maupin | Tales of the City | The acclaimed best-seller by the author of Significant Other, Babycakes, and Sure of You follows the experiences of Anna Madrigal, doyenne of 28 Barba

Janet Maxwell | Mum | The last thing Jesse ever wanted was to be a mother. She ended up raising her sister, their grandchildren, and an adopted daughter.

Joan Lindau | Letting in the Night | From Publishers Weekly

The use of a journal as framework for narrative is a faulty strategy in this novel about two women confronting their ambiva

Eva Jones | Thirteen | `English Evalore is thirteen years old, a pain to her teachers, a pain to her parents, a pain to her psychiatrist, and a pain to listen to – this nove

Louise A. Blum | Amnesty | From Publishers Weekly

This uneven first novel, about a young woman prompted by the death of her father to excavate a miserable childhood, fails t

Lisa Alther | Kinflicks | Lisa Alther reels through the ups and downs of Ginny Babcock’s coming of age in Hullsport, Tennessee, during the ’50s and ’60s. Ginny bounces from one

Sarah Schulman | People In Trouble | From Publishers Weekly

Kate, involved in a love triangle with her husband and her lesbian lover, works as an artist and AIDS activist in New York

Bertha Harris | Catching Saradove | KIRKUS REVIEW

A tangled, frenetic but courageous first novel which has to do with a young woman’s search for the self that proceeds from sexu