“Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and…
“In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly…
“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,…
“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…
“The novel’s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-…
“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…