Title: Shy girl
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Young women, Lesbians, Fiction, Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Gender identity, Denial (Psychology), Unrequited love, Mothers and daughters, Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Finalist