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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

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Lilac Mines

by Cheryl Klein

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ISBN13: 9781933149318
ISBN10: 1933149310
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“Klein’s characters are compelling, one and all.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

Felix Ketay, a twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she’s ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood.

Felix’s old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age nineteen and ended up in Lilac Mines, a small town in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch/femme community.

When Felix joins her aunt in Lilac Mines hoping to discover a place of respite, Anna Lisa proves stand-offish, so Felix devotes herself to investigating the town’s one hundred-year-old mystery: the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lilac Ambrose in the mine shafts that run beneath the mountain.

Felix learns that finding an authentic history is never easy, but Lilac Mines—with its abandoned mines, unknowable secrets, and the occasional quirky-cute thrift store employee—might not be such a bad place to try.

Cheryl Kleinis a shameless Angeleno, quiet pescatarian, and shameful tabloid reader. She lives in Los Angeles where she is West Coast director of Poets & Writers, Inc.

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Cheryl Klein is a shameless Angeleno, quiet pescatarian, and shameful tabloid reader. She like things that are small (presses, drawings, parties, changes) and a few things that are big (novels, desserts, hair). Klein currently works in the nonprofit arts field as West Coast director of Poets &Writers, Inc.

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Nancy Cary, November 2, 2009 (view all comments by Nancy Cary)
I turned the last pages of Lilac Mines as slowly as I could because I didn't want to say goodbye to Felix, Anna Lisa (aka Al), Meg, Lilac and Calla. Cheryl Klein's characters have quirky and wondrous names. She invents a small town place with an abandoned mine where these young women lose and find themselves. She has mined her imagination for potent metaphors that will fill you with silver. In this book love is lost. Lives are lost. A town dies and resurrects itself. Street names and buildings are lost. But can the past be boarded up for good? Klein gives us a mystery. She gives us a fairy tale. Klein weaves her story back and forth over many lifetimes and breathes spirit into the words her characters speak. Listen to Cheryl Klein tell her story.
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ISBN:
9781933149318
Author:
Klein, Cheryl
Publisher:
Manic D Press
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Lesbian
Subject:
California
Subject:
Lesbians
Publication Date:
June 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
351
Dimensions:
840x550x80 90

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