Shy girl
By: Elizabeth Stark.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.; Lesbians -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction ... a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other women. She works as a body piercer at a full-service tattoo parlor, rides a motorcycle, and has slept with every girl in San Francisco who is so inclined. But none can replace Sasha "Shy" Mallon, the next-door neighbor from her girlhood. As teenagers, they discovered themselves together; then Shy fled to Seattle and entered a relationship with a man.

Now Shy has returned, pregnant, to be at her dying mother's bedside. Alta joins her there; and soon they are tending toward intimacy again, in a way that shakes up their notions of who they are, as well as opening up the secrets of their mothers' lives."--BOOK JACKET.