num_pages: 315
description: What has brought best-selling lesbian novelist Virge Young to this dayto an intensive care unit where she hovers between life and death from a gunshot wound?The road begins in 1969. Virge is thirteen. Dominant in her world are her inflexible dogmatic father her rebellious brother and a mother who tries her best to run interference among all of them. Ricki Ann is Virges best friendmore than her best friend. Complicating matters between them are a profoundly conflicted young man named Ronnie Lane; Virges secret African-American friend Mel; and a fire and brimstone preacher named Pastor Bob. Also impacting young Virges life are holocaust survivor Mrs. Rosenbaum notorious Great Aunt Belle a girl named Leigh Annand other memorable figures youll come to know along Virges road to identity and self-affirmation especially a woman named Ruth.Backslide is about love and forgiveness and the capacity for growth and acceptance; Backslide is about courage in the face of relentless opposition.Backslide is above all a great story told with sublime artistry with tenderness and depth. Backslide is destined to be a classic.
language: English
title: Backslide
publisher: Spinsters Ink