Fiction and nonfiction form compelling counterpoints in this powerful look at love and lesbianism The stories and essays in this anthology depict homosexuality in all its variegated forms. In ';Home Movie,' Alysoun Carr, a clarinetist with the San Francisco Symphony, learns about overcoming fear from a woman named Constantina. ';In the Attic of the House' depicts sixty-five-year-old Alice, who rents rooms to younger gay women who have no inkling of Alice's tragic lesbian past. ';Outlander' is about a widowed alcoholic trying to stay sober through a war that will take her son and, possibly, her longtime lover. ';Sexuality in Literature' is a lively essay about everything from the homophobia that exists in all of us to the new words that need to be invented for female sexuality.