num_pages: 416
description: Drawing on her experience as an adult literacy tutor, Judith Frank's first novel traces the difficult and sometimes hilarious connection between two butches of different generations - a middle-class, thirty-something adult literacy teacher and her older, working-class student. With a disparate group of adult learners as the backdrop, Frank examines, with warmth and wit, the relationship between education and gender, class, and racial identity. With Crybaby Butch, Judith Frank creates a deeply human, bravely unsentimental story while at the same time investigating the meaning of butch identity as it reinvents itself from one generation to the next. ~ Carol Anshaw Fearless and unflinching, Crybaby Butch rigorously explores butch/femme dynamics over two generations. Judy Frank's debut novel is searing and memorable. ~ Claire Messud
language: English
title: Crybaby Butch
titlecomplete: Crybaby Butch
genres: LGBT, Butch Femme, Lesbian, Judaism, Queer Lit, Jewish, Female Authors, Lesbian Fiction, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 148
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Debut Fiction
publisher: Firebrand Books