Goatsong by Dodici Azpadu

Set in San Francisco, but written as a “mock Greek tragedy”, with a modified version of a Greek chorus, it tells how Brandy, pushed beyond endurance by daily humiliation, discrimination and misogynist violence, is goaded to an act of random revenge. Dodici Azpadu takes us inside a community of friends and lovers who do not buy society’s views of themselves and gives us an unparalleled description of Black, Third-World and working class lesbian life.