Perspective

This book was written in the 1990s in America. It comes out of San Fransisco, California. While the majority of Californians are heterosexual, San Fransisco is famous for its protective attitude towards the minority of practicing homosexuals and bisexuals. The authors are both women. This is a collaboration, which is not unheard of but is relatively unusual within the world of writing. Normally, editors are the only other person involved with the author's writing of a book.

The women authors are actually also quite mature. These aren't young ladies in their twenties. They are much older. Whatever has been taken from their outer appearance has been given back as life experience. They are able to share their life experience from this different perspective. Their generation shows in cultural markings signified largely by attitudes and ways of handling certain things.

The women are American lesbians. They don't tell which...