lovers in the present afternoon but Kathleen Fleming when Lynn meets Ruth and falls deeply in love, both women must make I changed their decisions about their lives and to choose each other as to risk everything as Lynn gathers all her inner resources she has already begun to journey into the deepest recesses of the past and her identity that will show her the true shape of her life. lovers in the present afternoon said against the turmoil of Vietnam years is electrifying passage through one woman's life a life which meant men have always commanded May the growth and flowering of her love for Ruth Lynn finally understands the profound effects of an essential abuse of her childhood which has robbed her of her self-esteem and which increasingly clear vision she examines the disintegrating the heart of her marriage is sexual and emotional landscape doomed from the start by its destructive seeds. the eloquent novel is both a story of love and the discovery of interrogation of self and language a candor and vividness in images and unforgettable intimacy we are carried on a journey that cannot fail to evoke moments in our lives cannot fail to move and touch and speak to us all.