Books like What the mouth wants by Monica Meneghetti

A collection of romantic stories from the author's life, including her first love and heartbreak experiences.

A bold, collage‑styled volume that blends explicit lesbian erotic imagery, humor, and personal essays into a provocative exploration of queer female desire and representation.

A moving true account of a Chinese family split across continents, as Denise Chong traces her grandmother’s journey from concubine in China to tea‑house worker in Canada and reunites long‑lost siblings.

A harrowing memoir of a daughter’s struggle against a controlling father and a dysfunctional family, revealing the lasting impact of psychological and physical abuse.

A romance‑led police stakeout turns into a dangerous game of deceit when a con‑artist target collides with a cop’s favorite coffee‑shop romantic interest.

""She loved men a special way..""

500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.

Traversing decades and continents, Comfort Food for Breakups is an elegiac, sensual, and beguiling memoir about food, family, and personal history by fiction writer and filmmaker Marusya Bociurkiw. In these intimate vignettes, food—soup, eggs, chocolate truffle cake, perogies—nourishes, comforts, and heals the wounds of the past. Knishes recall a father haunted by memories of time spent in a concentration camp during World War II; chocolate evokes memories of queer girls and liasons in dim lesbian bars. For the author, both at home across Canada and in her travels through North America and Europe, food becomes her salvation, and a way to engage with the world. Thoughtful, moving, and passionate, Comfort Food for Breakups muses upon the ways in which food intersects with a nexus of hungers: for intimacy, for sex, for home.

"The Inheritance of Shame" recounts Peter Gajdics’s six‑year ordeal in a British Columbia conversion‑therapy program, set against a family history marked by war, incarceration, and trauma, and explores the lasting effects of repressive practices on identity and resilience.