Books like Care Of by Ivan Coyote

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, *Fun Home*, chronicles her complex relationship with her father, a funeral-home director, and her own coming-of-age as a lesbian, using intimate drawings and witty narrative.

Twelve Black British women and people of diverse identities share intertwined stories across Britain, revealing family ties, love, and social change.

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

Cameron Post, a gay teen from a conservative Montana ranch town, is sent to a conversion therapy center after her family demands she change her sexual orientation.

Carrie Brownstein, guitarist and co‑founder of the pioneering riot grrrl band Sleater‑Kinney, shares her journey from underground feminist punk roots to mainstream acclaim in this candid memoir.

A collection of short stories that celebrate identity and belonging, featuring LGBTQ+ teens and the author’s own Canadian and urban experiences.

xxiii, 222 p. ; 20 cm

An anthology of essays and stories that chart the ever‑shifting meanings of butch and femme, written by Ivan E. Coyote, Zena Sharman, and a diverse array of queer voices.

This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism"--Dust jacket flap.

Correspondence between the author and his parents, Helen Anne and Angus McGill Mowat, during the latter years of the Second World War.

A son, a daughter, and a ranch in Wyoming collide when a wounded veteran, his estranged son‑in‑law, and a young mother seek redemption and an unlikely family‑bond amid the quiet aftermath of the Korean War.

In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.