Download e-book for iPad: Apples & Oranges by Jan Clausen

By Jan Clausen

ISBN-10: 1609807499

ISBN-13: 9781609807498

Sexuality and id are the dual goddesses that lend Jan Clausen’s Apples & Oranges its grace and urgency. within the overdue Nineteen Eighties, after greater than a decade residing inside of a powerful Brooklyn lesbian neighborhood together with her woman lover and their daughter, Clausen travels to a conflict region in Nicaragua, the place she falls in love with a West Indian male attorney. Her memoir is brimming with intimate actual and emotional info of her own trip, yet possibly what units it aside are the deeply educated ancient and philosophical lenses wherein she examines her personal event.

Deeply felt, intensely considerate, gorgeously written, Apples & Oranges is a testomony to the ability and peril of hope. it's also a blinding exam of the ways that our look for love and happiness intersect. What does it suggest to be instantly? What does it suggest to be queer? Jan Clausen offers us now not one yet many solutions to those questions.

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