Carolin spielt virtuos Mandoline, spricht sechs Fremdsprachen und kann im Kopf die Wurzel aus siebenhundertvierundachtzig ausrechnen. Aber als sie sich mit ihrem Exfreund um ein riesiges Erbe streiten muss, ist sie komplett uberfordert. Verstandlicherweise. Denn sie ist noch keine drei?ig und gerade Witwe geworden. Und das wirft wohl jedes noch so gro?e Wunderkind aus der Bahn. Zum Gluck ist Carolin in ihren schwarzesten Stunden nicht allein, u ...
Gerri schreibt Abschiedsbriefe an alle, die sie kennt, und sie geht nicht gerade zimperlich mit der Wahrheit um. Nur dummerweise klappt es dann nicht mit den Schlaftabletten und dem Wodka und Gerris Leben wird von einem Tag auf den anderen so richtig spannend. Denn es ist so eine Sache, mit seinen Mitmenschen klarzukommen, wenn sie wissen, was man wirklich von ihnen halt! ...
Robert will have to win the bet because he's fighting for his livelihood, his friends, his business,and more importantly, if he loses, he will have to sleep with Vicky, boy will his wife be mad. ...
“Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of today’s gay/music/human scene. This audacious non-memoir burnt the hair off the back of my neck and had me rolling with glee.” —S.F. Bay GuardianA dirty cult-classic put out in a small batch by an underground publisher (Rudos and Rubes) in 2015, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger recounts the life ...
On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication. ...
This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share in Nairobi, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determ ...
Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. As she checks out her other options, her sexual obsession with her cous' ignites but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family ...
This treasure from the golden age of lesbian pulp fiction picks up where Stranger on Lesbos left off. Deserted by her butch lover, Frances struggles to re-integrate into conventional married life. But no amount of resolve can keep her away from a new lover, the boyish Erika who lures her back into the melodrama of lesbian life.Femmes Fatales restores to print the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th centur ...
The recent media surrounding U.S.-Korea diplomatic relations increases the novel's significance. The Country and the City will be of particular interest to anyone eager to learn more about Korea, where families remain divided by a demarcation line drawn over fifty years ago at the end of World War II. There are very few works of Korean fiction available in the United States. This is the first complete novel written by a woman before the Kor ...
