Terry Barbara comes alive with Sexual energy political awareness and a sense of humor and a poet's eye here's a page Turner with something worth thinking about in every page a mystery with a message Jane Myers non-fiction writing and political Allen and analysis have been important to me little surprised that her fiction is also thought-provoking very engaging a good read Pam McAllister editor revealing the web feminism and nonviolence University Washington late seventies National headline scream at Patty hurts defection into perverse and violent politics the campus reflects who is reckless restless forces. radical lesbian spray painting and unyielding bricks patriotic with the sign of the lavender labras leftist students proclaimed armed struggle maybe the only way to end oppression but no one expects the shocking proof that the political person is personal when murder arrives a professor has been stabbed a lesbian arrested all those she hardly knows the woman accused of the crime Terry Barber remember a lesbian collective everywhere house is determined to prove her innocent Jane marring touching innocent hero makes her way through the 70s revealing familiar lesbian feminist types and amused look at our own past Alex Dubik