Books Reviewed In

Books Reviewed in The Lesbian Edition #7

Prose & Poetry & Pulitzers
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems, Alice Walker, $13.95, Random House
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings, Alice Walker, $12.95, Random House
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker, $24.95, Random House
By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Alice Walker, $13.95, Ballantine
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings, Mary Oliver, $22, Da Capo/Perseus
Why I Wake Early, Mary Oliver, $22, Beacon Press
New and Selected Poems: Vol. 2, Mary Oliver, has been rescheduled for Fall 2005

More Fiction
Luna, Julie Anne Peters, $16.95, Little Brown
Keeping You a Secret, Julie Anne Peters, $16.95, Little Brown
Against the Current, Beverly Hickok, $21.99, Xlibris
Into the Forest, Jean Hegland, $15, Bantam
Windfalls, Jean Hegland, $25, Atria/Simon & Schuster
She’s the Girl, Susan M. Brooks, $14.95, Small Dogs Press
Desilicious: Sexy. Subversive. South Asian, The Masala Trois Collective, $16.95, C$21.95, Arsenal Pulp Press

Bit Parts
In the River Sweet, Patricia Henley, $14, Anchor/Random House
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler, $23.95, Putnam
The Third Child, Marge Piercy, $24.95, Morrow (paperback in late fall)
Art of Mending, Elizabeth Berg, $24.95, Random House
Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg, $13.95, Dell
Ten Little Indians, Sherman Alexie, $13, Grove
The Toughest Indian in the World, Sherman Alexie, $12, Grove
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie, $13, Harper/Perennial
The Body of Jonah Boyd, David Leavitt, $23.95, Bloomsbury

Sex and Passion
Box Lunch: A Layperson’s Guide to Cunnilingus, Diana Cage, $13.95, Alyson
On Our Backs: The Best Erotic Fiction, Vol. 2, Diana Cage, $14.95, Alyson
Once Upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians, Barbara Johnson et al., $14.95, Bella

Lives To Watch Out For
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, Alexis de Veaux, $29.95, Norton

Reading to the Kids
Where Is the Green Sheep? Mem Fox, illustrations by Judy Horacek, $15, Harcourt in the US, Penguin in Australia
Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever, Mem Fox, illustrations by Judy Horacek, $12, Harvest/Harcourt
Life on the Edge, Judy Horacek, $13.95, Spinifex, Fall

Lesbian Families
Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination Is Changing the World, Amy Agigian, $29.95, Wesleyan University Press
The Family of Women, Maureen Sullivan, $21.95 paper, University of California Press

Resources
Can’t Touch My Soul: A Guide for Lesbian Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Donna Rafanello, $16.95, Alyson Publications
The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism, Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin, eds., $14.95, Anchor
The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women, Laura Flanders, $15.95, The Feminist Press
Kings and Queens: Queers at the Prom, David Boyer, $24.95, Soft Skull Press
Becoming a Visible Man, Jamison Green, $24.95 paper, Vanderbilt University Press
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts, Claude J. Summers, ed., $29.95, Cleis Press
The Gay & Lesbian Atlas, Gary Gates and Jason Ost, $49.50, The Urban Institute
The (Penguin) Atlas of Women, Joni Seager, $20, Penguin

More on Marriage
We Do: A Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Marriage, Amy Rennert and Louise Kollenbaum, $19.95, Chronicle Books
What Is Marriage For, E. J. Graff, $16, Beacon
Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political, by Kathleen A. Lahey and Kevin Alderson, $16.95, $21.95 in Canada, Insomniac Press
Gay and Lesbian Weddings, David Toussant with Heather Leo, $16.95, Ballantine/Random House

(More) Gay Marriage Books To Watch Out For
I Do/I Don't, Greg Wharton and Ian Philips, eds., $16.95, Suspect Thoughts Press, September
The M Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage, edited by Kathy Pories, Algonquin Books, October
Why Marriage? The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality, George Chauncey, Basic Books, August
The Survival Guide to Gay Weddings, K.C. David and Dawn Kohn, St. Martin's Press, Spring
Another World Is Possible, Jason West, Miramax, Spring

Now in Paperback
The Book of Salt, Monica Truong, $13.95, Mariner/Houghton Mifflin
That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta, Robert A. Schanke, $25, Southern Illinois University Press
Beautiful Shadow, Andrew Wilson, $18.95, Bloomsbury
Highsmith, Marijane Meaker, $14.95, Cleis Press
Small g: A Summer Idyll, Patricia Highsmith, $24.95, Norton

What They're Reading at In Other Words

What They Are Reading at Women & Children First
Referred Pain, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, $24, Counterpoint
The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat, $22, Knopf/Random House

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