Kate Jessica Raphael | Murder Under the Fig Tree | Kate Jessica Raphael’s first book lured me into this lesbian-murder-mystery tent. A political essayist and blogger whom I had long admired, Ms. Raphae
Alison Bechdel | Dykes to Watch Out For | Grin, giggle, and guffaw your way through this celebrated cartoonist’s graphic commentary of contemporary lesbian life.
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Evelyn Torton Beck | Nice Jewish Girls | A stunning collection of angry, bitter, proud, and joyful writing–poetry, stories, history, analysis, autobiography–on Jewish lesbian identity. With
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
Elizabeth Swados | Flamboyant | When Chana Landau begins her job as a teacher at Harvey Milk High School, she leaves the protection of her traditional Orthodox Jewish enclave in Broo
Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale |
Donna Minkowitz | Growing Up Golem | Donna Minkowitz contributes to the long-standing Jewish-American literary tradition of agonizing self-excavation with her unadulterated new memoir.
Anthony Thorne | Delay in the Sun | ‘… Delay in the Sun tells the story of a few days in the lives of a set of ill-assorted English tourists who find themselves unexpectedly stranded i
Benjamin Taylor | Tales Out of School | A breathtaking debut novel of family and coming of age, in the tradition of Edmund White and David Leavitt. In turn-of-the-century Galveston, the Mehm
Karen X. Tulchinsky | In Her Nature | Desire, love, hot sex, cool sex, relationships, grieving, surviving, thriving as a Jewish dyke.
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From Publishers Weekly
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