Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Please Stop Trying to Leave Me is a deeply engrossing, frenetic, and thought-provoking debut by Portuguese-Lebanese-American writer and screenwriter Alana Saab (she/her). The story is narrated by Norma, a twenty-seven-year-old, privileged young woman living in present-day New York in the wake of a mental health breakdown. DescribedRead More
A Sapphic Nova Scotia Gothic: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I couldn’t tell you why, but I am obsessed with sapphic selkie stories. There are very few of them out there, but I leap on the chance to read any that I stumble upon. Don’t get me wrong: I like sapphic mermaids, too, butRead More
A Lush Bisexual Vampire Gothic: Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, originally published in 2020 and translated this year by Heather Cleary, is a dramatic and lushly gothic novel about two women who a string of circumstances going back over a century bring together in modern day Buenos Aires. Yuszczuk revelsRead More
Who is Worthy of Survival at the End of the World? On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! I want to preface this with that I read this for my Bi Book Club and it turns out the bisexual character is a supporting one, not the main one. So I will focus this review on that relationship. This was a really goodRead More
Love at First Selkie: The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! On a recent trip to Portland, my partner and I picked up The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (she/her) from Powell’s City of Books. This gorgeous graphic novel follows Morgan Kwon, a 15-year-old young woman living with her mom and younger brother on WilneffRead More
Grumpy/Sunshine Behind the Bar: In Walked Trouble by Dana Hawkins
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! In Walked Trouble, Dana Hawkins’s newest novel, takes us away from the coffee shop of Not in the Plan and into Nueve’s, a Puerto Rican bar and restaurant that should totally exist. (Has anyone else noticed just how many great concepts for restaurants, bars, coffee shops,Read More
Grief in Utopia: The Seep by Chana Porter
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! This review contains spoilers. The Seep might be one of the most refreshing takes on alien invasion I’ve ever read. This novel follows Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka, a middle-aged trans woman, as she and her wife Deeba, along with almost everyone else in the world, areRead More
Murder by Crowdfunding: Crowded Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela et al.
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! The Crowded comic book series tells the satirical story of a dystopian world not too far in the future where the gig economy has become unhinged. In this world, everything has a price, including putting out hits on someone’s life through an app called Reapr. AnyoneRead More
A Wacky Adventure Through Working Retail and the Multiverse: Finna by Nino Cipri
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Ava just broke up with her partner, Jules. They both work at an Ikea-like furniture store, but they’ve been managing to work different shifts after the breakup… until today. That’s already awkward enough before they discover a portal and are tasked with going throughRead More
A Sapphic and Metis Secret Garden: Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline
Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline is part of MacMillan’s Remixed Classics series, which has diverse authors reimagine beloved classics through their own perspective. In this offering, Dimaline remixes The Secret Garden, setting it in Canada and filling it with Metis characters andRead More
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