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I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer’s
By Judith FoxPowerHouse BooksI Still Do was written to help anyone who has or may be coping with someone in their family who has Alzheimer’s. It is a candid and emotional portrayal of author Judith Fox’s husband Ed along with their heartfelt stor...
Los Abrazos Rotos (Broken Embraces)
Directed by Pedro AlmodóvarSony ClassicsThe latest Pedro Almodóvar film is very much what we expect, but it’s also what we don’t expect. One of the many things I love about Almodóvar is that he has normalized some of the most marginalized and ...
My Men
By Malika MokeddemTranslated by Laura Rice and Karim HamdyGrasset & FasquelleI must admit that I approached Malika Mokeddem’s memoir with trepidation. I found it hard to believe that I would enjoy a life story recounted only in terms of the men...
Perfect Chemistry
By Simone ElkelesWalker & CompanyI can pinpoint exactly where I fell for the charms of Simone Elkeles’ Perfect Chemistry due to the disappearance of my “reflective” notes in the margins: Chapter eleven. Page sixty-seven. The initial sixty-s...
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
By Temple GrandinHoughton Mifflin HarcourtI used to work at a college with a woman who had Asperger syndrome. Because we were both far more interested in animals than humans, we would convene every morning to discuss what sorts of dogs we’d seen du...
Risk
By Elana DykewomonBywater BooksAuthor Elana Dykewomon has been acclaimed for writing about lesbian lives and realities largely unacknowledged by the mainstream. Her last novel, the Lambda Award-winning Beyond the Pale, vividly portrayed New York’s ...
Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same-Sex Desire and Contemporary African-American Culture
By Stefanie DunningIndiana University PressStefanie Dunning takes the scalpel of reason to the twin sores of misogyny and homophobia that sometimes stain traditional notions of a black nationalist consciousness. The result is an intellectual illustra...
So Happy Together
By Maryann McFaddenHyperionSo Happy Together is Maryann McFadden’s second novel in which the themes of love, change, and nature—along with a strong and very human woman protagonist—are at the heart. Claire Noble is a forty-five-year-old woman i...
