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Drawing on her own experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank’s debut novel explores the fraught yet occasionally hilarious relationship between two butches of different generations. The story centers on a middle‑class, thirty‑something adult literacy teacher and her older, working‑class student, delving into themes of class disparity, intergenerational connection, and LGBTQ identity.
Through witty, candid dialogue and authentic domestic details, Frank portrays the challenges and rewards of a teacher‑student relationship that defies conventional boundaries and offers insight into the lives of lesbian characters navigating love and societal expectations.
First publish date: November 2004
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Lesbian Fiction
Authors: Judith Frank
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