Outlander

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DIVFiction and nonfiction form compelling counterpoints in this powerful look at love and lesbianism /divDIV The stories and essays in this anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms. /divDIV /divDIVIn “Home Movie,” Alysoun Carr, a clarinetist with the San Francisco Symphony, learns about overcoming fear from a woman named Constantina. “In the Attic of the House” depicts sixty-five-year-old Alice, who rents rooms to younger gay women who have no inkling of Alice’s tragic lesbian past. “Outlander” is about a widowed alcoholic trying to stay sober through a war that will take her son and, possibly, her longtime lover. “Sexuality in Literature” is a lively essay about everything from the homophobia that exists in all of us to the new words that need to be invented for female sexuality./div

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