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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lesbian debutante Maxie Mainwaring is given an ultimatum by her parents: move back home or support herself. Maxie chooses the latter and embarks on a series of comical escapades as she looks for a job and finds romance.
12) Memory mambo
Author
Publisher
Cleis Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A Cuban-American's quest to learn the truth about her family. Are the stories of their achievement in pre-revolutionary Cuba true, or are they exaggerations or, worse, inventions? A look at a problem frequently faced by children of immigrants.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest--a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America. Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up...
15) Rubyfruit jungle
Author
Language
English
Description
Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to apologize for that. In no time she mesmerizes the head cheerleader of Ft. Lauderdale High and captivates a gorgeous bourbon-guzzling heiress. But the world is...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wise and joyful novel, Strangers and Cousins is about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: a compassionate and entertaining story about family, culture, memory, community, and the permeable lines that define one's tribal identity"--
Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter, Clem, to her college girlfriend. But Clem has her own agenda. The family is inundated...
17) Go the way your blood beats: an anthology of lesbian and gay fiction by African-American writers
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
