After the fire /
There is Karen Tasuki, who recently separated from her partner and wonders if she'll ever get used to being alone ... until she befriends Red, who cleans houses for the island's privileged inhabitants. Miss James is the eccentric Southern spinster born at the turn of the century. Milly For...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tallahassee, Florida :
Naiad Press,
1989.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | There is Karen Tasuki, who recently separated from her partner and wonders if she'll ever get used to being alone ... until she befriends Red, who cleans houses for the island's privileged inhabitants. Miss James is the eccentric Southern spinster born at the turn of the century. Milly Forbes is a woman whose husband "went scot free after stealing twenty years of her life." And the sensible Henrietta "Hen" Hawkins yearns for her absent, ill husband. On a rural island that they dub a "used-wife lot," the five heroines nurture one another as they cope with loneliness, death, and renewed life. Imbued with wit and compassion, After the Fire is a novel about women loving women and women helping women--and the bond that transcends age, race, and even gender. |
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| Item Description: | One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. One of the Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copies was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 238 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0941483452 9780941483452 |