Rites of First Blood - Softcover

Wolman, Karen Dale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882587081 ISBN 13: 9781882587087

Publisher: Inland Womensource, 1995

Sara Hansen, a New York lesbian doctor travels to the Amazon jungle to research a plant that boosts the immune system against AIDS. While hiking up a tributary of the Amazon River one morning, she gets involved in a hunting accident with the Onasaki. Living deep in the jungle, this is the matriarchal hunting and gathering tribe's first contact with Western civilization. Lost from her colleagues, Sara goes back with the tribe and becomes lovers with Olani, the shaman and healer to the Onasaki. While a search party gets closer and Olani battles with the poweful daughter of the tribal chief, Sara must decide between two lives.

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About the Author:

Award winning author Karen Dale Wolman's short stories appear in Girlfriends, Bad Attitude, Lesbian Bedtime Stories, Ten Percent and Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, among other publications. Look soon for her second novel, The Ancestor.

Review:

Not unlike Sappho, Wolman's work revolves around intelligent, complex women seeking to understand themselves, each other, and love. -- New Times, July 24, 1999

Rather than...pitting Western values versus a "primitive" tribe, Wolman...easily carries the reader to the Brazilian rain forest. -- Gay and Lesbian Times, June 1995

The unique approach sets it far apart from typical lesbian fare. Fast moving, exciting. Occasionally funny and sometimes sexy. -- Women in Libraries, Spring 1997

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