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A Little Sister's Classic: a twentieth-anniversary edition of the first black "coming out" novel.

The award-winning author of After Delores writes a novel that probes the questions of sexual identity, self-renewal, and transformation. An office temp's journey of self-discovery culminates when she meets another woman whose essential BOMC Selection.

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Keenly surveying the borders of queer male community and identity, the fictions of "Contra/Dictions", a collection of stories by queer male writers from the U.S. and Canada, resist simple answers to complex questions. They suggest that while the "gay community" is becoming more "accessible" and "visible", there are regions and mindstates that cannot or refuse to subscribe to it, recognizing the plurality of gay identity. Mordant, coarse, and f...

Close to Spider Man marks the debut of an exciting new literary talent: a collection of connected stories whose female narrators seek out lives for themselves amidst the lonely, breathtaking landscape of the Yukon. The girls in Ivan Coyote's deeply personal stories are looking to make a break from their circumstances, but the North is in their bones: so is their connections to family, friends, and other women. Like the protagonist in the title...

An evocative novel that links the lives of a ninth-century poet/nun and a contemporary Asian-American woman.

A remarkable memoir about the unmaking of a film.

Sex, once the great unspoken, is now regularly commodified and prepackaged for wide consumer consumption, on TV, in films, on billboards. In this context in which nothing is shocking -- no boundary too sacred to cross -- what does sex mean, particularly to those born under these conditions? Carnal Nation collects stories about sex by an exciting new generation of writers who boldly push the narrative envelope. These are not your typical bump-a...

Some twenty-five years after the height of the "women's liberation movement", feminism has, in certain circles, become a dirty word, for some, it is no longer relevant, nor descriptive of women's lives today. For others, however, the struggles and the issues continue, implying the need for a redefinition of feminism and its role in modern society. Bringing it Home is a collection of intensely personal essays by women, from diverse experiences ...

The first collection of short fiction from the award-winning novelist.

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We all remember, with a shudder, the worst jobs we ever had: cashier, waiter, parking lot attendant. But what about having to wear winter clothes in the middle of a heatwave to work in an ice-cube factory? Or enduring the tedium of the phone-sex lines, bringing men to orgasm while reading Ms. Magazine? Or working in a beet factory, having to identify fancy beets from extra-fancy ones on the conveyor belt, the blood from your fingertips mixing ...

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A remarkable Jewish coming-of-age novel about the imperfections of history, both personal and political.

A solid addition to the historical record.

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Carmen Rodriguez writes from and about exile. Her work helps bring us back to ourselves". -- Margaret Randall"And a Body to Remember with brings to life the daily details of growing up in Chile in the hope-drunk era of the early 1970s. The dues the author has paid with her life take on flesh in her work, a fine contribution to that fractured mirror we call identity". -- Lake SagarisIn these resonant, deeply moving stories, Carmen Rodriguez exp...