Pieces of My Heart - Softcover

Watts, Julia

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1562802062 ISBN 13: 9781562802066

Publisher: Naiad Press,U.S., 1998

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Okay, you're a lesbian - now what? That's the question that graduate Jess Hamlin tries to answer in this heartwarming and hilarious account of Southern days and nights.

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You're out of the closet. Now what?
"The coming-out novel" is a common form of lesbian literature. In the typical coming-out story, the heroine starts out confused and unhappy, gradually discovers her own sexuality, and instantly finds happiness. In many of these novels, the experience of "coming out" seems to equal instant happiness and security. In my comic novel, "Piece of My Heart," I beg to differ with this equation.

Jess Hamlin, the novel's twenty-two-year-old protagonist, knows she is a lesbian, but has little idea what to do about it. Like the lives of many recently "out" lesbians, her life is comically chaotic: a mad tangle of misguided matchmakers, ill-fated crushes, and questions about how to live as a sexual minority. Jess's hilarious and poignant misadventures can be laughed at--and related to--by newly "out" and not-so-newly "out" readers alike.

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