Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book Award
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Barrie Jean Borich is the winner of many literary awards. She is also the author of Restoring the Color of Roses, a memoir set in the Calumet region of Chicago, where she grew up. Today she lives with her beloved, Linnea Stenson, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and teaches at Hamline University and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book AwardFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award
This is "passionate, intricately composed memoir of the author's long-term love relationship [is] much broader than a lesbian interest title . . . It will resonate with many readers, regardless of sexual orientation" (Kirkus Reviews). Indeed, My Lesbian Husband presents nothing less than "a gorgeous, tender aria to marriage. Borich tells of discovering with astonishment, through twelve years of devotion to the same woman, how much she delights in fidelity. She writes like a woman possessedenraptured by the sensual pleasures of words, by the power of stories, by the gravity of [her native Minneapolis] neighborhoodand reminds us that marriage is made not by the joining of bodies shaped a certain way, but by the joining of two lives, careers, and histories in one place, in one embrace" (Scott Russell Sanders). "A book to be savoredlying with your head in your girlfriend's lap."Out
"[Borich is] an empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love."MS.
"A compelling, profoundly felt book . . . A clear and rare view into the lives of two women and their world. . . . This lively memoir helps us to come that much closer to a mystery: the inexplicable fact of long-held affection, long-held desire, which can bind two people far more deeply than state or church ever could."Mark Doty, Ruminator Review
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"A book to be savored--lying with your head in your girlfriend's lap."--
Out"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love."--MS.
"A compelling, profoundly felt book. . . . A clear and rare view into the lives of two women and their world. . . . This lively memoir helps us to come that much closer to a mystery: the inexplicable fact of long-held affection, long-held desire, which can bind two people far more deeply than state or church ever could."--Mark Doty, Ruminator Review
Synopsis
A new paperback edition of the title Out magazine described as "a book to be savored -- lying with your head in your girlfriend's lap".
Synopsis
Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book Award
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Synopsis
Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book Award
"A book to be savored--lying with your head in your girlfriend's lap."--Out
"An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love."--MS.
"A compelling, profoundly felt book. . . . A clear and rare view into the lives of two women and their world. . . . This lively memoir helps us to come that much closer to a mystery: the inexplicable fact of long-held affection, long-held desire, which can bind two people far more deeply than state or church ever could."--Mark Doty, Ruminator Review
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Barrie Jean Borich is the winner of many literary awards and is the author of Restoring the Color of Roses (Firebrand Books), a memoir set in the Calumet region of Chicago where she grew up. Today she lives with her beloved, Linnea Stenson, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and teaches at Hamline University and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
About the Author
Barrie Jean Borich is the winner of many literary awards and is the author of
Restoring the Color of Roses (Firebrand Books), a memoir set in the Calumet region of Chicago where she grew up. Today she lives with her beloved, Linnea Stenson, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and teaches at Hamline University and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.