Shy Girl
by Elizabeth Stark
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San Francisco's edgy lesbian culture is the backdrop for this exploration of identity and secret lives. Alta Corral is a butch girl who makes her living as a body piercer. She's tough, wild, and hung up on her first love, a girl nicknamed Shy who was her secret lover in high school. Now in her early twenties, Alta is still searching for Shy, whose reluctant visit home to her dying mother uncovers a hidden, harrowing past. Shy Girl explores the dark territory of silence.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- Important places
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Dedication
- For
Twyla, who showed me things I could only imagine
and things I could not imagine at all;
Ernesto, who doesn't need this book to be a legend - First words
- There was a girl in Alta's bed when the phone rang, a girl all red-haired and fair-skinned and fleshy, which is to say, nothing like Shy. And that's just the way Alta wanted it. She was tired of trying to turn a vague resembl... (show all)ance into desire, tired of playing hide-and-seek between memories worn thing and a stranger's familiar face. They say things get easier in time and people forget. Yes, everything had changed, and for the better, but she remembered it all. -Chapter One
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- PS3569.T335736
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- Languages
- English, German
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- ISBNs
- 3
