You're Not From Around Here, Are You: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

You're Not From Around Here, Are You: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
by Louise A. Blum

You're Not From Around Here, Are You: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
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Author: Louise A. Blum
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-08
ISBN: 0299170942
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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Book Review: Wonderful Book
Summary: 5 Stars

I read Ms. Blum's book for a Sociology class. I actually started reading it before hand on the recommendation of a friend. I must say that this book is amazing. Ir gives you a view of gay life away from the normal booze drugs and sex. Also Ms. Blum is extremely witty. She is brutally honest about her pregnancy and the troubles it caused her! She also talks in DEPTH about the birth of her daughter. Though I thought some of the sex scenes were too graphic other than that I thought this book to be an amazing read!

Summary of You're Not From Around Here, Are You: A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)

"Blum is a superb writer." --Feminist Bookstore News

Put together 20 million frozen sperm, two funny women, and one impoverished stretch of Appalachia and what do you get? A wise and celebratory tale by Louise A. Blum, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Amnesty, who now uses her razor wit and deft precision to tell the story of her own life. With the help of a tiny sperm vial they call "Dad," she and her partner decide to have a child, unleashing a storm of controversy in their small town. From a glowing feature article in the family section of a local newspaper to the resulting prayer vigils on the village green, the town responds in radically different ways to their presence. A depiction of small-town life with all its comforts and its terrors, this memoir will speak to anyone who's ever felt like an outsider in America.

BACKC0VER: "Blum's first novel, Amnesty, [was] a lesbian coming-out tale, but what distinguishes it from a tide of sister books is Blum's poised prose, trained on detail and pleasingly free of breast beating." --Village Voice

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