Sweet Creek
Author Lee Lynch tackles broad
themes that affect us all: love, death, gender, and aging in a
novel rich with love, friendship, passion and romance.
Sweet Creek
is a story of love, community, and the changing tides of time set in a town
where trannies, lesbian cops, aging gay hippies, womyn's landers, and
rural couples come in search of a lesbian paradise. Two left over
lesbian hippies, now in their 50's, Donny and Chick run the vegetarian
Natural Woman Foods store. In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick,
her lover, Lee Lynch continues to depict the struggles of working class
butch lesbians and femmes.
Advance Reviews for Sweet Creek
Novelist Lee Lynch—author of a dozen books
including Old Dyke Tales and
Morton
River
Valley—has
been creating richly woven lesbian stories since she was a contributor
to The Ladder in the ‘60s. She’s done it again with the
beautifully rendered tale, Sweet Creek. The sharply focused
snapshot of the women of Waterfall Falls, a tourist stop along Oregon’s
Interstate 5, Sweet Creek takes us inside the lives of aging gay
hippies, trannies, lesbian cops, womyn’s landers and rural couples by
tackling broad themes that affect us all: love, death, gender and
aging.
Lynch possesses an authentic rural
voice—so rare in lesbian literature—and offers up stories that are
simple and moving, infused with a kaleidoscope of emotions, that remind
us of the fiercely loving way lesbians find wholeness. A must read for
dykes of all ages.
--
Diane Anderson-Minshall, executive editor of Curve magazine and
co-editor of Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity and Sexuality.
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“…Lee Lynch creates an entire town peopled with sympathetic straights,
homophobes, lesbians, loggers, and new age dykes. Campers, goddess
worshipers, freeloaders, softball players, artists and writers, blue
collar dykes who pump gas and paint houses, and druggies all come to
Waterfall Falls searching for a lesbian paradise in the Spirit Ridge
and Dawn Farm lesbian communities. Two left over lesbian hippies, now
in their 50’s, Donny and Chick run the vegetarian, Natural Woman Foods
store. In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick, her lover, Lee Lynch
continues to depict the struggles of working class butch lesbians and
femmes. With names like Jeep, Solstice, Rattlesnake, and Pennylane,
Lynch remembers that generation of women who pulled up stakes in the
various cities and towns across the U.S. to attempt to create a
communal ideal of lesbian life.”
--
Judith P. Stelboum is the author of Past Perfect: a novel of
lesbian life and co-editor of the Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open
Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex, Editor of HLLQ
(Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of the
Haworth Press’ Alice Street Editions for Lesbian books.
Previous Publications
Toothpick House
1983
Old Dyke Tales
1984
The Swashbuckler
1985
Home in Your Hands
1986
Dusty's Queen of
Hearts Diner 1987
The Amazon Trail
1988
Sue Slate, Private
Eye 1989
That Old Studebaker
1991
Morton River Valley
1992
Cactus Love
1994
Off the Rag: Lesbians
Writing on Menopause, Anthology Edited with Akia Woods 1996
Rafferty Street
1998
