Tag: Great

N. Martin Kramer | The Hearth and the Strangeness | An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few realistic an

Pat Parker | Movement in Black | Amazon.com Review

This is the new, expanded edition of a groundbreaking volume of poetry first published in 1978, 11 years before Parker’s early d

Barbara Wilson (2) | Gaudi Afternoon | Cassandra Reilly, a Spanish translator and amateur detective, agrees to go to Barcelona and search for Frankie Stevens’ missing husband, Ben, who disa

Louise A. Blum | Amnesty | From Publishers Weekly

This uneven first novel, about a young woman prompted by the death of her father to excavate a miserable childhood, fails t

Bertha Harris | Catching Saradove | KIRKUS REVIEW

A tangled, frenetic but courageous first novel which has to do with a young woman’s search for the self that proceeds from sexu

Nicola Griffith | Ammonite | Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet’s deadly virus had killed most of the original colonist

Dorothy Allison | Bastard Out of Carolina | Allison spikes her critically acclaimed first novel, a National Book Award nominee, with pungent characters, and saturates it with a sense of its sett

Victoria A. Brownworth | Ordinary Mayhem | Faye Blakemore is a photojournalist for a major New York newspaper. Faye has been taking photos since she was a small child, taught by her photographe

Nicola Griffith | Slow River | She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore v

Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Illusionist |