Great Lesbian Reads

Family secrets, we've all got them. Sometimes we hold them inside to protect ourselves. Sometimes we tell the lie so often, we begin to believe it ourselves. Two recent lesbian novels explore the theme of of family secrets and the new world of possibilities when those secrets are uncovered. This Wild Silence by Lucy Jane Bledsoe tells the tale of two sisters, one of them lesbian, and the terrible secret they hold inside from the day their brother disappeared. In Southland by Nina Revoyr, Japanese American lesbian lawyer Jackie Ishida sets out to uncover the secrets of her grandfather's past. In the process she discovers a part of herself she didn't know was missing.