The Ada Decades

The Ada Decades

by Paula Martinac

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Details

Genre Historical
Length 200 pages
Publication Date February 20, 2017
Publisher Bywater Books
ISBN 9781612940861
Cover Designer Ann McMan, TreeHouse Studio

Overview

Over seven decades, Librarian, Ada Shook, is witness to the racism laced through her Southern city; the paradox of religion as both comfort and torment; and the survival networks created by gay people. Eleven interconnected stories cover the sweep of one woman’s personal history as she reaches her own form of Southern womanhood—compassionate, resilient, principled, lesbian.

A slightly different version of “Comfort Zone” was first published in Raleigh Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2016). “Raised That Way” originally appeared in Minerva Rising, Issue 11 (Winter 2017).