Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Romance - LGBTQ+ - Lesbian

In 1960s London, class, race, and gender matter-a lot. Magda Moen, a Costa Rican immigrant, learns this hard truth after her husband abandons her and she has to move into rundown housing with other migrants. There she's mocked for everything from her skin color to her language.

Magda isn't a quitter, though, and she turns to education to get back on her feet. At a college for adult learners, she meets Rosanna Sullivan, a professor of literature who takes a special interest in her. But when Magda embarks on a friendship with Rosanna-who happens to be white-her troubles multiply.

"You changed my life" - this is the gist of the fan mail Patricia Nell Warren received following the publication of her New York Times bestseller The Front Runner (1974). This book looks at her life, her Ukrainian poetry and translation of a national epic, her sequels to The Front Runner and the most famous gay movie never made, her other novels, and her many contributions to gay and straight magazines. Homosexuality and sports, Catholic morality, right-wing politics, AIDS, queer families, Native American pride, stewardship of our planet, the conflict between Ukraine...