Lovers' choice / Becky Birtha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birtha, Becky, 1948-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 152 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : The Seal Press, 1987.

Summary:

Short stories that look at the lives of eleven different women. Ms. Moses makes clear that the government doesn't really help the poor. Sahara has spent her whole life caring for other people's children. Maurie questions herself when she is attracted to a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Johnnieruth's mother disapproves of her acting like a "tomboy."

Contents:

Johnnieruth

Baby town

Ice castle

pencil sketches for a story: The Gray Whelk Shell

Route 23: 10th and Bigler to Bethlehem Pike

Both ways

Her ex-lover

Past halfway

The saints and sinners run

In the deep heart's core

In the life.

Pencil sketches for a story: The grey whelk shell

Notes:

"Cover design by Deborah Brown."

Author's second volume of short stories.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0931188563

OCLC:

16224314