{"product_id":"9781933149318","title":"Lilac Mines: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Klein’s characters are compelling, one and all.”— \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manic D Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033223250160,"sku":"9781933149318","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933149318_p0.jpg?v=1763640275","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933149318","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}