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86 reviews

What We Lost in the Swamp: Poems by Grant Chemidlin

4.0

Lie with Me by Philippe Besson

5.0

Devastating. Beautiful. The portrayal of the way we experience love in our youth and the quickness with which that love is gone is told with intimate accuracy. The way shame can hold a person in isolation and the way life plays out with such cruelty at times is written with pure honesty. 

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

3.0

Pole Dancing To Gospel Hymns by Andrea Gibson

5.0

Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis

2.5

Girlfriends by Emily Zhou

4.5

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

4.75

Such a sweet book about family dynamics and growing up. 

The Price of Salt, or Carol by Patricia Highsmith

3.0

Women by Chloe Caldwell

4.75

Find Me by André Aciman

5.0

André Aciman has a way of understanding the difference between first love and THE love. And he writes it so stunningly.