Synopsis
In this daring and timely collection, 24 new writers bring fresh vision to the conflicts of gender, race, and sexuality from the West Coast's literary cutting edge. At a point where lesbians and gay men are moving beyond political division, Indivisible represents unity and the need to transcend human differences. These stories embrace all the manifestations of love and anger, prejudice and fear, passion and lust, in the age of AIDS. And the authors' ethnic backgrounds--including black, Southeast Asian, Latino, and Native American--are as varied as the genres in which they write, such as mystery, mythology, and contemporary and historical fiction. This stunning volume is at once shockingly graphic, scathingly funny, and deeply moving.
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Calling this the first anthology to include literary fiction by both lesbian and gay writers, Wolverton, a writer, and Drake, a literary agent, say they hope the book will assert "a sensibility of 'one people, one volume.' " Only Robin Podolsky's horrific "Dignity/Uniforms/Dignity," however, overtly unites both groups, in a violent confrontation with homophobia. AIDS hangs like a smothering fog over several stories, yet characters manage big gulps of life and even laughter. In "Negatives from Mr. Tobias's Vacation," David Vernon observes a gay man's love life from the perspective of his motherly, prying secretary. Stealthily reading "sorry I lied to you about HIV" in a discarded letter from her boss's lover, she concludes, "Jacques had had an affair with some man named HIV. . . . It felt like such a slap in the face to us." This is an uneven collection; several stories are awkwardly crafted and others are bare sketches. The best, while written from a strongly gay or lesbian orientation, often touch on universal themes: "Baby," by Jacqueline De Angelis, describes a woman's fears of abandonment when her lover starts hatching plans for motherhood.
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