Random House New Releases - Fiction - Lesbian - Between May 24, 2012 and June 23, 2013.

The Albino Album by Chavisa Woods

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

The Albino Album A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods

"Devoid of pretense or fear, Woods tells a not so “normal” coming-of-age story set in the stretched-out underbelly of rural America. Smart but unworldly, Woods creates a new world for the contemporary misfit where circus performers, Catholic workers, fire jugglers, and power wives sit at the same table. A “gooble gobble” successor, Woods’s edgy sensuality doesn’t second-guess. Her language is clear, her home somewhere and nowhere." — 2013 Library Journal Spring Pick

"This book will grab you by the throat and not let up for 550 pages and when you’re finished you’ll wish you were back in its jaws."—Lambda Literary

Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a technicolored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, Catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.

The Albino Album by Chavisa Woods

2013-03-19T00:30:00-05:00

The Albino Album A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods

Emerging author Chavisa Woods has been noted for capturing a "strange, troubling vision of domestic life in the rural U.S." (Go Magazine). Here she presents a techno-colored vision of rural adolescence, the story of a girl with an unpronounceable name—a fiery, unhinged, growling, big-hearted country girl in a dirty black tutu and combat boots who travels along all the bizarre yet familiar byways of human desire from the cornfields of Louisiana and the big brass sound of Mardi Gras to the heights of the Empire State Building. Turning the tradition of the southern gothic novel on its head, Woods presents a new land of contemporary misfits including fire-dancers, pseudo-Nazis who breed albino animals, catholic workers, horse thieves, and the archangel Gabrielle.

Fair Play by Thomas Teal

2012-10-17T00:30:00-05:00

Fair Play
Written by Tove Jansson
Translated by Thomas Teal
Introduction by Ali Smith

Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.

Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. Fair Play shows us Mari and Jona’s intertwined lives as they watch Fassbinder films and Westerns, critique each other’s work, spend time on a solitary island (recognizable to readers of Jansson’s The Summer Book), travel through the American Southwest, and turn life into nothing less than art.

Cassandra at the Wedding by Deborah Eisenberg

2012-08-21T00:30:00-05:00

Cassandra at the Wedding
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg

Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.

Dorothy Baker’s entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother.

First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.

Random House New Releases - Fiction - Lesbian - Between May 24, 2012 and June 23, 2013.

The Albino Album by Chavisa Woods

The Albino Album A NovelWritten by Chavisa Woods

The Albino Album by Chavisa Woods

The Albino Album A NovelWritten by Chavisa Woods

Fair Play by Thomas Teal

Fair Play Written by Tove Jansson Translated by Thomas Teal Introduction by Ali Smith

Cassandra at the Wedding by Deborah Eisenberg

Cassandra at the Wedding Written by Dorothy Baker Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg

The Albino Album A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods

The Albino Album A Novel
Written by Chavisa Woods

Fair Play
Written by Tove Jansson
Translated by Thomas Teal
Introduction by Ali Smith

Cassandra at the Wedding
Written by Dorothy Baker
Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg