lesbian life before Stonewall intimate and compelling solitary and Brahms describes lesbian apprition in the '50s devastating conflict between one public and private life in most intimate detail. Sarah dryers fictional character Shelby Camden expresses her innermost thoughts and feelings in a way no one else is done his book gives young and middle-aged lesbians that taste of our history it also gives old lesbian survivors a sense of pride del Martin and Phyllis Lynn cohorts of lesbian women Sarah dreyer Stoner McTavish mysteries are hugely popular and deservantly so in her first novelist for a out of stoners territory she cracks a vivid funny touching it terrifying look at free Stoner Stonewall lesbian life solitary and friends is a page Turner in the best sense you must know what will happen next surprise and suspense however our only part of the richness of this novel dryer characters are vibrant lively frighteningly real you will never forget them Sarah dryer has managed to portray the nuances of hidden agendas as they manipulate and distress everyone in their orbit solitary and Brahms is also a reminder from the not so distant past that we have indeed made progress and women's rights and lesbian rights readers would cheer for Shelby and she wins her way through the mind fields of what others want for her until she just got discovers a path that works for her she is McDaniel poet writer and activist in addition to write a story with cabbage series The mystery is Sarah dryer is a clinical psychiatrist the prize-winning playwright she lives in Amherst Massachusetts where their family of choice assorted wild and domestic beast oh isn't that cool I adopt people too some understand some things that they're still just friends they never get that I'm not perfect I'm just a writer who writes journal style trying to write fiction and I chose them as family.