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Average customer rating:

Very Engaging.
Completely absorbing
a gorgeous, moving, steamy novel

Crybaby Butch
Judith Frank
Manufacturer: Firebrand Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1563411431

Book Description

Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank's first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations - a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity.

With Crybaby Butch, Judith Frank creates a deeply human, bravely unsentimental story while at the same time investigating the meaning of butch identity as it reinvents itself from one generation to the next. ~ Carol Anshaw

Fearless and unflinching, Crybaby Butch rigorously explores butch/femme dynamics over two generations. Judy Frank's debut novel is searing and memorable. ~ Claire Messud

Customer Reviews:

Very Engaging........2005-10-10

This is a very well written and unique book. I hope this author writes many more. I will be looking forward to them.

Completely absorbing.......2005-01-22

Once I moved beyond Chapter One, written in the second person, I found this book completely absorbing. I fretted over the characters when I had to leave the book to go to work (how annoying - work, I mean). I found the exploration of butch culture fascinating, and the difficulty of the older butch's life almost unbearable to read about. It's hard to imagine what life would be like looking like a stone butch in a society that scorned (scorns) that identity, coupled with the unbelievable alienation of being illiterate in our society. My partner and I talked about the book for hours. She read it after I did and I kept interrupting her to ask "what's happening now?" Beautifully written. As much as I worried about Chris and Anna, I also found the book wonderfully entertaining, filled with rich characters, lots of humor, wonderful insights. I feel fortunate to have read it.

a gorgeous, moving, steamy novel.......2005-01-11

I couldn't put this book down. For one thing, I fell completely in love with the two main characters. For another, the writing is breathtaking. There are so many sentences I had to read twice because they were just so beautiful. Or oddly perfect. Or completely hilarious. Also, don't let the description fool you. Yes, it's about "adult literacy"-and poignantly, brilliantly so-but it's no chaste school-marm treatise. It's about lush, real life-and real sex, the blush-worthy kind. I loved it. I loved it so much, in fact, that I'm reading it a second time!

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