Rat Bohemia
"More persuasively than any other contemporary novelist, Sarah Schulman traces the ways in which the disenfranchisement that begins as a political evil pervades every aspect of life, from the metaphysical and spiritual to the most intimate moments of two people together."--Tony Kushner "My surrender to Rat Bohemiais a testimonial to its gimlet-eyed accuracy, its zero-degree honesty. . . . Navigating the currents of the city are three friends: Rita Mae, a rat exterminator; Killer, a career plant-waterer; and David, an HIV-positive writer. Together, they seek new ways to be truthful and honest about their lives as others around them avert their glances. Alternately elegiac, defiant, and funny, Rat Bohemiais an expansive novel about how one can cope with loss and heal the wounds of the past by reinventing oneself in the city. Rat Bohemiawon the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction and was named one of the "100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" by the Publishing Triangle. Sarah Schulmanis the author of eleven books, including the novel The Child(2006). She lives in New York.