Exile and the Heart Lesbian Short Storie

by Tamai Kobayashi

"From the Future Bakery to Old Man Dam, Tamai Kobayashi reveals the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Asian-Canadian lesbians and their families with a quiet, intense passion. Kobayashi has a sharp eye for the poetic in the everyday, and for the small resonant truths that gleam amidst the seemingly mundane. Contemplative, gorgeous, and precise, this is a book about how history, personal and global, creates the present and how the present evolves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889612293
• ISBN13: 9780889612297
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Women's Press Literary
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Mosaic of connections between family & friends

A beautifully written series of interlocked stories about a small group of women, all either friends, family, or exlovers. Kobayashi evokes in a sort of poetic fire clearly the sometimes joyful, sometimes painful ties people have with each other. Even though the characters are women and most are lesbians, the overall story can clearly portray parallels in any family unit, whether chosen or hereditary. Resonates along with Sarah Schulman's "Rat Bohemia" or Alison Bechdel's series "Dykes to Watch out for".