Chicken by Paula Martinac

Lambda Literary Award-winner Paula Martinac's new novel, Chicken, is terrific fun. When dumped by her partner of 13 years, fortysomething ghost writer Lynn Woods embarks on extremely sexy affairs with two--count 'em, two--great looking twentysomethings. Part of the story takes place at the beach, where Lynn and her best pal, the recently outed Harold, try to escape Lynn's overeager paramours. This goofy book is packed with snappy dialogue and comic reversals reminiscent of the Keystone Cops. Chicken also provides an affectionate and embarrassingly accurate portrait of the differences between lesbian youth cultures of the 1970s and the 1990s.