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Nancy Garden begins the book by describing her experience as a 16-year-old in the early 1950s, when she turned to Collier’s Encyclopedia to look up the word homosexuality. Hear Us Out! also includes essays to illustrate and explain what was happening at each moment in history. Hear Us Out! Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present by Nancy Garden (Farrar, Straus Giroux)įrom the author of the classic young adult novel Annie on My Mind comes this collection of stories thatdepict life for gay and lesbian teenagers over the last six decades. The following collections, however, are filled with complex stories that are moving, engaging and absolutely transporting: Hear Us Out! Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present by Nancy Garden The Best Short Stories of Lesléa Newman by Lesléa Newman Come to Me by Amy Bloom. ![]() I read to be transported to a different world, and I find that escape is often easier with a novel. For some reason I have always struggled with short stories. ![]() ![]() In particular, the book illuminates in persuasive detail the specific relations that the women in India negotiate as surrogate mothers and workers in a fledging market “that is morally contentious and constructed as deviant and unnatural in mainstream Indian society” (5). ![]() Interviewing the range of actors, from the parents, the agents who oversee the transactions, the medical experts, and, finally, the women whose labor is extracted, Pande covers the dense world of transnational commercial surrogacy. The clinic specializes in surrogacy both for parents in the global north and India. This book is based on deep ethnographic work carried out over a period of six years at an Armaan maternity clinic in a place called Garv, in India. Amrita Pande’s Wombs in Labor is a very timely book contributing to the growing literature on commercial surrogacy, while intervening in debates about embodied labor, medical tourism, motherhood, and the ethics of assisted reproduction. ![]() ![]() To date, Kat has over seventeen million copies of her books in print. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era." My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and historical houses. "I love history and enjoy spending time in museums and art galleries. "I love to travel and especially like visiting the places where my books are set," Kat says. Kat is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara where she majored in Anthropology and also studied History. Martin, an author of Westerns and high-action Thrillers. ![]() ![]() During that time, she met her husband, L. Before she started writing, Kat was a real estate broker. 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Orchid qualifies because she is 17 and Manchurian and because her father was from the royal Bannerman tribe. The emperor has issued a decree that he is looking for concubines. ![]() ![]() Orchid has one chance to escape a life of certain misery. Because they are so poor, the family receives help from an uncle, who tells Orchid she must marry his retarded son. The family is first seen bringing the coffin of their deceased father to Beijing for burial. The climb from poverty by a young woman unsure of herself is remarkable. It was her ancestor's tribe that conquered China in 1644 and whose tribal leader became the first emperor of the Ch'ing Dynasty. 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