Title: Bailey's beads
Description: A lesbian lies dying with her mother and her lover in attendance, but separately. The hostility of the two women is such they cannot be in the same room at once. Eventually, the pain of having to face their sorrow alone will force them together.
Subjects: Coma, Mothers and daughters, Patients, Lesbians, Fiction, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Lesbians, fiction, United states, fiction