Category: Fiction

Posted in Black Interest Fiction

A Deeper Love by Shonia L. Brown

Shonia L. Brown | A Deeper Love | When Angel Reynolds found herself at a white lesbian bar on Christmas Eve, she never expected to encounter two women that would drastically change her

Posted in Fiction Short Stories

24 Stories by Willa Cather; Sharon O’Brien

Willa Cather; Sharon O’Brien | 24 Stories | This superb collection of Willa Cather’s early stories–including twelve never before available in paperback–is the first to show the full scope and

Posted in Fiction

Butch by Jay Rayn

Jay Rayn | Butch | Review

Reviewed by Araminta Matthews Butch, by Jay Rayn, is a postcard from the life of a lesbian who is constantly being mistaken for a man. Mike

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Body Language by Kelly Magee

Kelly Magee | Body Language | Largely set in the South, the eleven stories of Body Language guide us into the hidden worlds of the culture wars. The people in these stories

Posted in Fiction Mystery Romance

Kaleidoscope by Gretchen Stone

Gretchen Stone | Kaleidoscope | ‘Strong writing and fine characterizations make this first novel, Kaleidoscope, a great pick for a winter read by the fire, or a summer read on

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Isabel Miller | Patience and Sarah | In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah t

Posted in Fiction

The Redneck Way of Knowledge by Blanche McCrary Boyd

Blanche McCrary Boyd | The Redneck Way of Knowledge | This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An

Posted in Fiction Humor

Hoochie Mama by Erika Lopez

Erika Lopez | Hoochie Mama | ‘Fresh from prison, Tomato ‘Mad Dog’ Rodriguez returns to find her once-bohemian Mission neighborhood overrun by Latte People trading stocks on cell p

Posted in Fiction

Growing Up Delicious by Marianne Banks

Marianne Banks | Growing Up Delicious | There were a lot of reasons that explained why Jennifer Andersen left Delicious. The marriage of her sweetheart to a man and her attempt to drown her

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Movie/Media Tie-In

The Child Manuela by Christa Winsloe

Christa Winsloe | The Child Manuela | Winsloe’s 1929 novel became the movie ‘Maedchen In Uniform.’ The story revolves around a young girl who is sent to a repressive Prussian boarding scho