{"product_id":"hungerheart-the-story-of-a-soul-9781944981709","title":"Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul","description":"Meet Joanna \"John\" Montolivet as she discovers the nature of the world and God's existence from her infancy to juvenescence. John dreams of the erotic and splendid, expressing her yearning through writing, reading great books of literature, and admiring the female figure and sensibility. Coming of age in a discordant family with a \"famine\" in her heart, she longs for love and passion, leading her to Catholicism, and most importantly, a desire for women. The desire for same-sex attraction meets at the intersection of the physical and the spiritual in \u003ci\u003eHungerheart: The Story of a Soul.\u003c\/i\u003e First published under the male pseudonym Christopher St. John in 1915, Christabel Marshall's work is regarded as the first Catholic lesbian novel. Unlike lesbian novels of the fin de si? cle and The New Woman Movement, John's journey of sapphic spirituality and sexuality is not a phase, but the beginning of a lifelong reverence of women. Written at a time of violent censorship and sexual oppression, Marshall's characters represent lesbian, trans, and androgynous people, thinly masked as cisgender and heterosexual. In this publication of \u003ci\u003eHungerheart, \u003c\/i\u003e twenty-first-century readers can enjoy Marshall's deeply spiritual love of women in its full glory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sinister Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944981709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312","brand":"George Robb, C. Marshall St John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44988159688885,"sku":"9781944981709","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_192b8a39-fe0c-4bbd-a62f-c0738b58aa1b.jpg?v=1735626429","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hungerheart-the-story-of-a-soul-9781944981709","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}