Member: lilysea

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Tagsfiction (227), American literature (151), queer (128), lesbian (115), women's studies (87), African American literature (76), race (68), biography (66), religion (63), Christianity (62) — see all tags

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Groups19th Century Decadent Literature, 40-Something Library Thingers, African/African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Queer and Trans Lit, Tea!

Favorite authorsAlison Bechdel, Judith Butler, Emma Donoghue, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Ali Smith, Lemony Snicket, Mark Twain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson (Shared favorites)

About meI am an over-educated, downwardly-mobile, lesbian housewife and write-from-home mom to two beautiful daughters by domestic, open, transracial adoption. Tea, not coffee. Put the milk in first.

Seeking an agent for my recently finished first novel, which can be summarized thusly:

In 1880, heiress, Lillian Foster Blake, runs away from her much older husband to be with the manager of her father’s stable. Joe is not what he seems, however, but a woman disguised as a man. For twenty years, Lily and Joe carve a life out of the nineteenth century American West, establishing the sort of family that conventional history has tried to erase.

About my libraryI think ultimately there will be about 1200 books in here, so judge for yourself how complete it is as I go along. I shelve (and therefore catalogue) by category, including: fiction; general nonfiction (a lot of critical and cultural theory, a lot about race in the United States, esp. African American/white race relations); poetry; drama; biography; education; adoption and parenting (both theoretical and practical); queer studies (fiction, theory, self-help etc.); religion (especially, but not exclusively Christianity) and a nice set of Library of America editions of American literature.

My collection reflects my undergraduate days as an English language and literature major, a Master's degree in religious education, K-12 teacher's certification, coming out as a lesbian in my late 20's, a PhD in American literature with an emphasis on gender, race and sexuality between 1870 and 1920, and two transracial adoptions.

The fact that I buy (rather than borrow) most of my books and hold onto them forever probably reflects having grown up the child of an independent bookstore owner.

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Real nameShannon LC Cate

LocationChicago, Illinois, USA

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Member sinceOct 29, 2005