AN ARTIST YEARNING FOR TRANSCENDENCE finds an unlikely path toward it in her complicated attraction to an injured ballerina. Lyrical prose both lush and austere traces a many-leveled tale of longing and self-knowledge. B PLUS
LIFE IS MORE THAN GENDER for Zoë Bossiere, whose tale of a hardscrabble, hard-luck boyhood on the outskirts of Tucson winds through androgyny and young womanhood into a place of self-acceptance as a genderfluid writer and teacher. B PLUS