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Fiction Lesbian

Femme Confidential

by (author) Nairne Holtz

Publisher
Insomniac Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2017
Category
Lesbian, Contemporary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554831937
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Femme Confidential is a darkly comic examination of sexual freedom and finding yourself, your tribe, and the not-so-perfect girlfriend. Set in a gentrifying Toronto neighbourhood, the novel is told from the point of view of three lesbians. Liberty, the daughter of earnest Quaker hippies, pivots between being good, bad, and awkward as she searches for passion. Veronika, a beautiful and charismatic Hungarian whose primary dating criteria is hotness, embraces her outer mean girl--until she has a baby. Dana, a transsexual lesbian, struggles to find her place in a dyke community where masculinity, something she wants to irradiate from her being, is embraced by the femmes she desires.

About the author

Nairne Holtz is a fiction writer who lives in Montreal with her lover and miniature dogs. She co-edited No Margins: writing canadian fiction in lesbian (Insomniac, 2006), which has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. The Skin Beneath is her first novel.

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