Stone Butch Blues: A Novel
by Leslie Feinberg
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Author: Leslie FeinbergEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-01
ISBN: 1555838537
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Alyson Books
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Book Review: Worth reading -- and re-reading
Summary: 5 Stars
Long before I finished "Stone Butch Blues," I knew I'd be back. In these busy days, that's saying a lot. Leslie Feinberg's autobiographical tale of growing up as a butch lesbian in blue collar Buffalo, pre-Stonewall, has its harrowing scenes, as you might expect. Tales of police abuse and love gone wrong fill its pages, and yet such is the author's honesty and gentleness that I want to return to her world and read it all again. Feinberg's alter ego, Jess Goldberg, wants only to love freely and be loved and live as who she is. Her touching, sometimes amusing attempts to do so hold together the narrative of her first twenty-some years, first in Buffalo, then in New York City. The story of what Jess does not have, and what is taken from her, is heartbreaking, but Feinberg is always there with the reader to hold that broken heart together and make it whole with moments of love and wonder at the beauty of the world -- from Jess' touching date with a woman who believes she, Jess, is a man, to a scene on a Manhattan subway platform where Jess hears Mozart played for the first time, by street musicians. Alongside the story of Jess' coming of age sexually runs the story of her awakening to the world of blue collar labor relations. She joins other butches on the assembly lines of Buffalo' factories, and soon becomes involved in union activism. Anyone who reads "Stone Butch Blues" will wish immediately to find more by Feinberg, so as to have her for a travelling companion a while longer. Her other book is "Transgender Warriors," a nonfiction work in which the connection between gender discrimination and class prejudice is examined in greater depth. By the time you're finished with that, who knows? -- you may well, like me, want to go back and read "Stone Butch Blues" again!
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