In a steam-filled diner in a college town, 17-year-old Flannery Jansen meets a remote, brilliant older woman who soon becomes her idol. Author: Sylvia Brownrigg Publication Date: April 2002 Paperback.
Winner of a 2002 Lambda Literary Award. In a steam-filled diner in a college towm, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old, new to evrything around her--college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life--is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her. When Flannery finds herself enrolled in a class with remote, brilliant older woman, she is intimidated at first, but gradually becomes Anne Arden's student--Baudelaire, lipstick colors, or how to travel with a lover--Flannery proves an eager pupil, until one day learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to know. "With an admirable respect for the importance of youthful passion, Sylvia Brownrigg spins out this modern version of the age-old story of first love and sexual initiation."--Maria Russo, "The New York Times Book Review" Tags: Lesbian Fiction, Coming Of Age, First Love.
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