num_pages: 224
description: San Francisco's edgy lesbian culture is the backdrop for this exploration of identity and secret lives. Alta Corral is a butch girl who makes her living as a body piercer. She's tough, wild, and hung up on her first love, a girl nicknamed Shy who was her secret lover in high school. Now in her early twenties, Alta is still searching for Shy, whose reluctant visit home to her dying mother uncovers a hidden, harrowing past. Shy Girl explores the dark territory of silence.
language: English
title: Shy Girl: A Novel
titlecomplete: Shy Girl: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Lesbian Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Lesbian
ratings_count: 124
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
publisher: Seal Press