Lover

Bertha Harris’s 1976 novel Lover tells the adventurous story of a community of lesbians who unite to teach one of their own to become a lover in every sense of the word. By healing Flynn and showing her how to cherish the various aspects of herself, these characters show readers that by embracing creative potential, women can find a way to remain whole and inscribe their subjectivity in a show more dangerous world—a world in which dividing and dissecting both the female body and the female psyche are authorized and endorsed by religious and philosophical traditions. Although the novel is focused on the experiences of a lesbian who learns to love, the themes in this book apply to any reader interested in understanding the human experience of finding oneself and realizing one’s potential, whether that be as a lesbian, as a woman, or as a lover. show less