Letting in the Light
Lindau, Joan / Alden, Joan
In this earnest but simplistic tale, lesbian lovers are reunited after years of separation when one of them learns she is dying. The novel opens with San Francisco professor Thaddea Owens receiving a letter from her former lover, Frances Cole (Franco), explaining that she's been diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and asking Thaddea to spend Christmas with her. The two had fallen in love a decade earlier at Woodbine College, then continu...