Fiction

MOTHER TONGUE:
A Novel by DEMETRIA MARTINEZ "I am so proud of [Demetria Martinez] for standing with and for the disappeared. A sister, a lover, a witness." -Alice Walker. A young woman finds herself - and love - through her involvement with the Sanctuary movement. "A book that becomes more timely every day, in our present political climate, and deserves the widest possible audience for its beautiful prose and humanitarian heart." -Barbara Kingsolver.
ONE WORLD/BALLANTINE BOOKS $21.00 HARDCOVER

PAPER FISH
TINA DE ROSA
A moving first novel of 40s and 50s Chicago and an Italian-American working-class family and community - worlds uprooted by upward mobility and ravaged by urban renewal. Carmolina, like others of her generation, is torn between the bonds of the past and the pull of the future. "The best Italian-American novel by a woman of this century." -Louise DeSalvo.
THE FEMINIST PRESS AT CUNY $9.95 PAPER

CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT
SHANI MOOTOO
Part magic realism, part psychological drama, this haunting novel explores a world where love and treachery collide. Mala, adventurer and protector, victim and madwoman, is at the heart of this powerfully and elaborately wrought novel. From the author of the critically acclaimed Out on Main Street.
PRESS GANG PUBLISHERS $14.95 PAPER

RECKLESS DRIVER
LISA VICE
"Lisa Vice is a writer with tremendous talent." -Kirkus Review. This stunning novel tells the story of Lana Franklin, a feisty young girl who wins our affection and respect as she struggles to survive her chaotic world. Set in Windfall,Indiana in the 60s, Reckless Driver is "meticulously crafted...alive with the clamor of a carnival in July." -Belles Lettres.
PLUME $10.95 PAPER

GOODNESS
MARTHA ROTH
"Minnesota winters, peace demonstrations at the crack of dawn,dope, feminism, sex, Vietnam, parenthood and food co-ops shape the vivid backdrop of Roth's excellent debut novel.... At the heart of the novel are founding members of a women's peace group...[whose] lives are intimately connected by the politics that brought them together and the friendship that continues to bind them."-Publishers Weekly.
SPINSTERS INK $10.95 PAPER

WALKING THE TWILIGHT II: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE SOUTHWEST
Edited by Kathryn Wilder
"These women can write like hell...[this book] is the key that unlocks a whole world of Southwestern literature." -Richard Shelton, Going Back To Bisbee. Featuring the writings of Paula Gunn Allen, Denise Chavez, Pam Houston, Demetria Martinez, Mary Sojourner, Yoshiko Uchida, Terry Tempest Williams and 18 others, this is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Walking The Twilight.
NORTHLAND PUBLISHING $14.95 PAPER

EX UTERO
LAURIE FOOS
Rita's lost her uterus in the mall. When she can't find it, she relates her plight on national TV, which leads to a hilarious chain reaction of sympathetic responses and womb sightings. Nothing is safe in this parable that "pokes holes in a lot of stale notions about sexuality, fertility and fulfillment."-Library Journal.
HARVEST BOOKS/ HARCOURT BRACE $11.00 PAPER

THROWAWAY ANGEL
NANCY RICHLER
Tova's lackluster life - days spent running the Kwik Kleen Laundromat in a seedy district of Vancouver, nights spent brooding about being dumped by her girlfriend - picks up its pace when her friend Gina disappears. Wryly told by a lesbian narrator, this is a page-turner with heart and wit.
PRESS GANG PUBLISHERS $12.95 PAPER

A FROZEN WOMAN
ANNIE ERNAUX
Translated by Linda Coverdale
This sequel to A Man's Place and prequel to Simple Passion is Annie Ernaux's description of a transformation from girlhood to womanhood. A Frozen Woman is a fictionalized account of her teenage awakening, and the parallel progression of her dream to be desirable and ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession. Ernaux's most harrowing, affecting and inspiring tale yet.
SEVEN STORIES PRESS $9.95 PAPER

THE BOOK OF CANDY
SUSAN DWORKIN
The transformation of Candy Shapiro: a raucous suburban parable by the author of Stolen Goods. "If we still had campfires and storytellers, Susan Dworkin would be making us laugh and cry with this mythic woman's journey of our day - from stereotype to unique self. Sit down at the campfire by picking up The Book of Candy." -Gloria Steinem.
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS $20.00 HARDCOVER

PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED
ETEL ADNAN
"A gem of a book." -The Village Voice. Adnan's gorgeous book "places its author on the radical fringe.... A minor classic, stylistically close to Proust but a bit more extreme." -American Book Review. "An excellent introduction to her unique blend of acute observation, emotional integrity, political clarity and philosophical speculation." -The Nation. By the author of Sitt Marie Rose.
THE POST-APOLLO PRESS $13.50 PAPER

JANE'S STORIES: An Anthology of Work by Midwestern Women
Edited by Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Clara Johnson, Linda Mowry and Julie Sass
Thirty-one women speak from the heartland in this acclaimed and rare anthology, which includes the popular poem, "Feminists Have the Best Earrings" by Stephanie Harris, and excerpts from The Lines in Her Face by Bonnie Ilyse Tunick. Also included are works by Cinda Thompson, Evelyn Shockley, Constance Fitzgerald, Etta Worthington, Constance Vogel, Whitney Scott, the editors and others.
WILD DOVE STUDIO AND PRESS, INC. $9.95 PAPER

CITY OF DARKNESS, CITY OF LIGHT
MARGE PIERCY
The valorous men of the French Revolution are legendary, but there is a story long forgotten: the perseverance and brilliance of the women. In her new epic novel, the author of the bestseller Gone to Soldiers re-creates the role that women played in this tumultuous turning point in European history. Here, besides unforgettable characters, are untold stories of Paris: a dazzling protagonist in itself.
FAWCETT BOOKS $24.00 HARDCOVER