Not Telling Mother: Stories from a Life

by Diane Salvatore

Here are stories from the lives of lesbian couple Renee and Celia and their extended family -- stories about gay-baiting, about the closet, about choices and life's sheer unpredictability. From the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1562800442
• ISBN13: 9781562800444
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Naiad Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Horrid cover hides a real gem!

If you are lucky enough to find a copy of this book, don't let the awful cover turn you off. Inside you'll find a series of short stores that form a complete novel, and in those stories some excellent prose. Vivid with exasperation is the woman who is underwhelmed by her co-worker's stated tolerence for her lesbianism right after she has just been asked to applaud madly for her co-worker's engagement. Torn with anger is the daughter who refuses to comfort her religious father with the words that "Jesus forgave Judas" because she can't bring herself to compare her life and her partner to a traitor. Confused is the ex-husband who doesn't understand why his wife has taken up with another woman. Deeply in love are women at the center of the novel. Each story is a piece of a mosaic and the whole captures the range of lesbian lives with insight and feeling.