Fiction and nonfiction form compelling counterpoints in this powerful look at love and lesbianism The stories and essays in this anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms. In &“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.
