On Loving Women

By Diane Obomsawin

Book Overview

"On Loving Women is in turns wistful, sexy, goofy, bittersweet, frank, and adorable. Diane Obomsawin's deceptively simple lifework and straightforward writing style capture the breathless sweetness of holding another girl's hand for the first time, and the happy, lusty intimacy of a virginity-ending, drunken threesome. Delightful."--Ellen Forney, author of Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Intimate vignettes of women coming out

On Loving Women is a new collection of stories about coming out, first love, and sexual identity by the animator Diane Obomsawin. With this work, Obomsawin brings her gaze to bear on subjects closer to home--her friends' and lovers' personal accounts of realizing they're gay or first finding love with another woman. Each story is a master class in reaching the emotional truth of a situation with the simplest means possible. Her stripped-down pages use the bare minimum of linework to expressively reveal heartbreak, joy, irritation, and fear.
On Loving Women focuses primarily on adolescence--crushes on high school teachers, awkwardness on first dates--but also addresses much deeper-seated difficulties of being out: fears of rejection and of not being who others want one to be. Within these pages, Obomsawin has forged a poignant, powerful narrative that speaks to the difficulties of coming out and the joys of being loved.
Her first English-language work, Kaspar--a retelling of the life of Kaspar Hauser, the mysterious German youth who was raised in isolation and murdered just a few years after emerging from his imprisonment--was critically lauded for its simple but expressive storytelling, and for the way it portrayed traumatic material compassionately but without self-indulgenc

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 177046140X
• ISBN13: 9781770461406
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

NOT JUST FOR FEMALES- learn something about others once in awhile!!!

The second half of the book was ***** but the first had massive skips in storyline that were annoying but it seems she found out that she needed more focus to these short stories and adjusted beautifully! The changes in setting between Canadian Provinces and England/France combined with at least four different generations of characters really contributed to the authenticity of the universal themes. She pulled out her total package here with a regularity of great laughs AND plenty of extremely thoughtful reminiscing! I'll keep enjoying the mystery but I'm still left with the question I asked myself when I read the back cover: When EXACTLY does a woman lose her virginity to another? -StrictlySequential (goodreads)