Category: Fiction

Carol Anshaw | Aquamarine | Explores three hypothetical schemas that could have been the life of swimmer Jesse Austin if she had made different choices and had not been haunted b

Jane Rule | Inland Passage | In the most traditional of romantic settings, on board a ship that travels the Inland Passage, two women discover new possibilities . . . These and ma

Karen Dale Wolman | Rites of First Blood | Sara Hansen, a New York lesbian doctor travels to the Amazon jungle to research a plant that boosts the immune system against AIDS. While hiking up a

Eva Jones | Evalore | `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

Anne Smith Burton | The Canary Chronicles | After moving to New York to attend Columbia University, Kyle Sullivan’s life became a narcissist’s dream. She treated New York’s nightclubs, restauran

Rita Mae Brown | High Hearts | From the celebrated author of Rubyfruit  Jungle and Bingo  comes a stirring novel of the Civil War, a tale of  true love and mistaken id

Edith Forbes | Alma Rose | Pat Lloyd has spent her entire life in Kilgore-a small, dusty town set amidst the rolling hills and sagebrush-covered plains of the West. Intelligent,

Barbara Deming | Wash Us And Comb Us | Five short stories and a fragment of a novel.

Contents

Wash us and comb us.–An invitation.–Death and the old woman.–An illness.-

Sandra Bernhard | May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra? | It’s tough to categorize Sandra Bernhard’s book of semi-autobiography, philosophy, and quasifactual showbiz gossip. The book partly overlaps with her

Lisa Alther | Bedrock | This is the story of mid-life crisis, and the search for a pastoral idyll, which becomes a sort of ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ of the 1990s as Clea comes to k