Title: Apples & Oranges
Author: Jan Clausen
Published: 1999
Language: English
ISBN: 9781609807498
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Extension: EPUB
Size: 917 KB
Subjects: lgbtq memoir, lgbt memoir, bisexual memoir, bisexual non-fiction, lgbt non-fiction, bisexual nonfiction, lgbtq non-fiction, lgbtq nonfiction, lgbt nonfiction, memoir sexual identity, memoir sexuality, coming out memoir, coming out story, feminist canon, feminist memoir, feminist non-fiction, feminist nonfiction, bisexuality memoir, queer memoir, queer non-fiction, queer nonfiction, queer canon, lesbian memoir, lesbian non-fiction
Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen's Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a decade living within a strong Brooklyn lesbian community with her female lover and their daughter, Clausen travels to a war zone in Nicaragua, where she falls in love with a West Indian male lawyer. Her memoir is brimming with intimate physical and emotional details of her personal journey, but perhaps what sets it apart are the deeply informed historical and philosophical lenses through which she examines her own experience.
Deeply felt, intensely thoughtful, gorgeously written, Apples & Oranges is a testament to the power and peril of desire. It is also a dazzling examination of the ways in which our search for love and happiness intersect. What does it mean to be straight? What does it mean to be queer? Jan Clausen gives us not one but many answers to these questions.
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