{"product_id":"lilac-mines-9781933149318","title":"Lilac Mines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Klein's characters are compelling, one and all.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quirky, quickly paced story of a young woman ending a relationship with a young woman then developing a relationship with another young woman: herself. Klein's first book, \u003cb\u003eThe Commuters\u003c\/b\u003e, was a fine debut. Second books aren't necessarily as good. In this case, it's better.--\u003cb\u003eNoel Alumit\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrontiers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Ketay, a twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she's ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix's old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age nineteen and ended up in Lilac Mines, a small town in California's Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch\/femme community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Felix joins her aunt in Lilac Mines hoping to discover a place of respite, Anna Lisa proves stand-offish, so Felix devotes herself to investigating the town's one hundred-year-old mystery: the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lilac Ambrose in the mine shafts that run beneath the mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix learns that finding an authentic history is never easy, but Lilac Mines--with its abandoned mines, unknowable secrets, and the occasional quirky-cute thrift store employee--might not be such a bad place to try.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl Klein\u003c\/b\u003e is a shameless Angeleno, quiet pescatarian, and shameful tabloid reader. She lives in Los Angeles where she is West Coast director of Poets \u0026amp; Writers, Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manic D Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933149318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Cheryl Klein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44723240042677,"sku":"9781933149318","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b7d553a4-4710-49ce-b4da-7553b0090ce7.jpg?v=1729007193","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lilac-mines-9781933149318","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}