This Is Not For You, perhaps Rule's most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and early 1960s as she negotiates her lesbian sexuality. This epistolary lament -- an unsent letter to a lover who was never quite a lover -- vividly depi...
Jane Rule’s incandescent third novel explores love, loss, and family . . . and the pieces of ourselves we leave behindBorn lame, Amelia Larson lives in the house that has been in her family for generations. Now she has a decision to make: Should she honor the dying wish of her sister, Beatrice, t...
Henrietta said to Red as they sat together eating leftover clam chowder for their lunch, “all that time I was trying to teach you how to live alone and really take care of yourself, I was teaching myself, too. Do you make sure you have at least one hot meal a day?” “Mostly.” “I do only because I ...
She did not sleep. She breathed a new fragrance, which was not so much sexual as personal, a faint perfume on her own arms, in her own hair. She felt the strangeness of the carefully arranged sheet that covered her. She listened to the morning silence of the room. Ann was the one to get up quietl...