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There is medicine here, too—the kind of medicine that helps invisible wounds heal. It is traditional when reviewing a literary piece to address content, plot and how well the author or authors educated or entertained the reader. While the resources list at the end of the book is invaluable, the information to be gained by a thorough reading is even more so. Hearing gospel from the likes of Byllye Avery, Audre Lorde, and both the late Pat Parker and Zora Neal Hurston is a soothing experience. As Evelyn White says in her introduction, “Please take this sisterly medicine and pass it on.” Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World, edited by Julia Penelope and Sarah Valentine, Crossing Press, $10.95. Taste the ¡Hidden Treasure at the Tamperyourself in Victorian. iltgan.ee Oceanside Trtathe the beach s heating air. 'J(pmancc Soothe away stress in warm waters, under secret night skies. 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Although it is good to see some of our techniques and Evil are bom to the daughter of Sky-Woman. The brothers fight as they grow up, and their discoveries in print, there is a sense of fighting shapes the world. "Stonecoat Woman wanting more. and the Vampire Skeleton" are good, scary The National Organization for Women stories that made me jump out of bed and turn (NOW), Chinook salmon, pinkie rings and on the lights. elevators all make appearances here. I think that kids of all ages who enjoy Most of the contributors to this anthology ancient myths and legends will want to read are white women; some of them seemingly this book. Kids between 10 and 14 can read it with money. As a result, we have for the most themselves. Parents of younger children can part, a narrative of their search for each other. read it to them. The print is large, the words Noticeable by their abscence, are accounts by are easy to understand and there is a part in native women from Third World countries the back of the book to help with native about how they find their lesbian sisters at American words. y home. Quite a few of these reports are contemporary with the Stonewall era. This makes the book seem more a history than a current event and makes one wonder how we are finding each other in this era of AIDS. According to Alix Dobkin’s foreword, Editors note: Mudge is a 13-year-old “Finding the Lesbians is good for us and good Talented and Gifted (TAG) student from a for women.” Hopefully as we continue to gay-positive family. She will be reviewing search for and find each other, the sense of books aimed at young readers which might be wanting more will become a sense of having, of interest to gay families with children. being, and doing more. Fbrtland Center Haza, Suite 2-H 2-075 S.W. first Avenue Fbrtland, Oregpn .97201 J A G U A R - M E R C E D E S B E N Z - D A T S U N /N IS S A N - A L F A R O M E O - A U D I just out V 25 T July 1990
