{"id":11141,"date":"2018-10-20T04:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T04:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2018-10-20T04:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T04:26:54","slug":"backslide-by-teresa-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/backslide-by-teresa-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Backslide by Teresa Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What has brought best-selling lesbian novelist Virge Young to this day–to an intensive care unit where she hovers between life and death from a gunshot wound? <\/p>\n

The road begins in 1969. Virge is thirteen. Dominant in her world are her inflexible, dogmatic father, her rebellious brother, and a mother who tries her best to run interference among all of them. Ricki Ann is Virge’s best friend–more than her best friend. Complicating matters between them are a profoundly conflicted young man named Ronnie Lane; Virge’s secret African-American friend Mel; and a fire and brimstone preacher named Pastor Bob. Also impacting young Virge’s life are holocaust survivor Mrs. Rosenbaum, notorious Great Aunt Belle, a girl named Leigh Ann–and other memorable figures you’ll come to know along Virge’s road to identity and self-affirmation, especially a woman named Ruth. <\/p>\n

Backslide<\/i> is about love and forgiveness and the capacity for growth and acceptance; Backslide<\/i> is about courage in the face of relentless opposition <\/p>\n

Backslide is above all a great story told with sublime artistry, with tenderness and depth. Backslide is destined to be a classic.<\/div>\n

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