Home in Your Hands

by Lee Lynch

More short stones from the author of Old Dyke Tales.

This is a many-faceted, all lesbian-themed collection, with stories about first love in old age; the scene in a lesbian bar; young women in a new stage of physical intimacy; romance and eroticism; lovers and friends.

Genres: Lesbian, Lesbian Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Lee Lynch published her first lesbian fiction in “The Ladder” in the 1960s. Naiad Press issued Toothpick House, Old Dyke Tales, and more. Her novel The Swashbuckler was presented in NYC as a play scripted by Sarah Schulman. New Victoria Publishers brought out Rafferty Street, the last book of Lynch’s Morton River Valley Trilogy. Her backlist is becoming available in electronic format from Bold Strokes Books. Her newest novels are Beggar of Love and The Raid from Bold Strokes. Her recent short stories can be found in Romantic Interludes (Bold Strokes Books), Women In Uniform (Regal Crest) and at www.readtheselips.com. Her reviews and feature articles have appeared in such publications as “The San Francisco Chronicle,” “The Advocate” and “The Lambda Book Report.” Lynch’s syndicated column, “The Amazon Trail,” runs in venues such as boldstrokesbooks.com, justaboutwrite.com, “Letters From Camp Rehoboth,” and “On Top Magazine.”

Lee Lynch was honored by the Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) as the first recipient (for The Swashbuckler) and namesake of The Lee Lynch Classics Award, which will honor outstanding works in Lesbian Fiction published before awards and honors were given. She also is a recipient of the Alice B. Reader Award for Lesbian Fiction, the James Duggins Mid-Career Author Award, which honors LGBT mid-career novelists of extraordinary talent and service to the LGBT community, and was inducted into the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame. In 2010 Beggar of Love received the GCLS Ann Bannon Readers’ Choice Award and the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze Award in Gay/Lesbian Fiction. She has twice been nominated for Lambda Literary Awards and her novel Sweet Creek (Bold Strokes Books) was a GCLS award finalist.

She lives in rural Florida with her wife.

Reviews

[mr. kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book up used at the harvard bookstore for no reason at all. I have to admit that I'm almost totally enamoured with it's sentimental lesbian romance and drama. I also like the fact that some of the stories (all of the stories?) are serial-esque (one story continues another, or picks up with he same characters). Like a number of Lynch novels I've read it's very butch/femme centric. I think I've read this at least three times and it always gives me warm fuzzies.

[Cher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lynch is an excellent writer whose stories about lesbians in the 80s (in this case) illuminates life in a universal way.