“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the…
“Monette recalls his tortured youth as a gay man, during which he tried to imitate straight men and pursued heartbreaking affections,…
“The novel’s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-…
“Zami: A New Spelling of My Name is a 1982 biomythography by American poet Audre Lorde. It started a new genre that the author calls…
“Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the pre-feminist ‘60s and then to pass as a man in order to…
“The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself…
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“In this novel, Amalia Gómez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia…
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“Set in 1902, members of a Gullah family from the Sea Islands off Georgia’s coast struggle with the decision to move North, leaving behind…