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Female Husbands: A Trans History is a history book by Jen Manion, a professor of History and Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, [1] published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. [2] The book won the Best Book prize from the British Association of Victorian Studies and was a finalist for the Lawrence W. Levine Award. [3]
It is a series of explicit erotic fantasies of the author in which she has sex with several—often anonymous—men and women, as well as her husband. It is written in the first person and the reader sees events entirely through the eyes of the sexually adventurous heroine. The book sold widely and later went on to be adapted into a film. The ...
Her Body and Other Parties is a 2017 short story collection by the writer Carmen Maria Machado, published by Graywolf Press. [1] The collection won the Shirley Jackson Award, [2] and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. [3] The story "The Husband Stitch" was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette. [4]
At the beginning of the story, Janine is described as basing her existence on her husband, that is, he needs her and so she has a reason to exist. However, she is becoming disenchanted with her husband and his narrow ways, his narrow life. On the trip, her view of the world, both literally and figuratively, are widened.
David, friend of a caretaker named Homer Buckland, is an elderly man who is spending his later years hanging out at the local gas station in a small town. He listens to Homer narrate a tale about a woman he knew named Ophelia Todd, who was obsessed with finding shortcuts before disappearing sometime ago.
The story is about a young girl, Edie, who is hired help for Dr. Peebles and his family. One afternoon while the family is away in town, Edie meets Chris Watters, a pilot who travels from town to town giving rides in his plane for a fee. Edie falls in love with him, but soon learns that he is engaged to another woman, Alice Kelling.
Ana Knezevich bought flowers and went back to her Madrid apartment on 2 Ferbruary when hours later a man in a motorcycle helmet showed up and spraypainted a security ...
The novel was well received. [4] Entertainment Weekly ' s Leah Greenblatt gave the novel an "A−" rating, describing it as "a sharp, thoughtful read". [5] Publishers Weekly concluded that, "Simultaneously a page-turner and a book one has to put down occasionally to think about and absorb, Moriarty’s novel challenges the reader as well as her characters, but in the best possible way."