Featured Book: Lee Lynch’s ‘Defiant Hearts: The Classic Short Stories’ Offers Lynch At Her Best
I’m an unabashed fan of Lee Lynch as an author, trailblazer and friend. Her Amazon Trail columns were a staple for many years, and her fiction is considered classic and essential. I’m delighted she has a new book out, this one a collection of short stories from the past 25+ years. Order it now, I did!
Defiant Hearts: The Classic Short Stories
By Lee Lunch
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Also available on Amazon
Gathered for the first time in one collection, these short stories from Lee Lynch represent a quarter century of passionate portrayals of lesbian women. Lynch chronicles the lives of old women who fall in love, a Black firefighter seeking her place in the feminist community, bar dykes unwilling to back down, the denizens of lesbian-owned Café Femmes, and Henny—who runs an urban fruit stand while regaling her baby butch assistants with tales from her life. Iconic characters from Lynch’s novels also make an appearance: Frenchy Tonneau from The Swashbuckler and Annie Heaphy from Toothpick House.
Lee Lynch’s work is considered among the classics and a cornerstone in the large and permanent foundation of lesbian literature.
About Lee Lynch
Lee Lynch is the co-curator, with S. Renee Bass, of the recent collection, Our Happy Hours, LGBT Voices From the Gay Bars, available from Flashpoint Publications. Her novel, Rainbow Gap, is available from Bold Strokes Books and other outlets. Her book, An American Queer, a collection of “The Amazon Trail” columns, was presented with the 2015 Golden Crown Literary Society Award in Anthology/Collection Creative Non Fiction. This, and her award-winning fiction, including The Raid, The Swashbuckler, and Beggar of Love, can be found at http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/Author-Lee-Lynch.html.