I know Beth Brant’s work from her anthology, A GATHERING OF SPIRIT. I’ve always been deeply impressed by “A Long Story,” and teach it almost every semester.

It was a real joy to have a chance to read other works by Brant in this great collection. It’s fabulous, it’s queer, it’s sovereign. Really great stories, really well put together. Several of the stories have an “oral history” quality, you know? when you read an oral history of a queer Chicana from New Mexico in the 1950s or Texas in the 1960s? Like that, but different: coal miners kids, exotic dancers, gay men, quilt patterns. All indigenous. A Fierce gem.