In Search of Pure Lust: A Memoir Nightboat Books a coming-of-age story about the

a coming-of-age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them

and the murderous island destined to bury them both

With Mama Letty's health dwindling every day

and his seemingly unstoppable roommate

last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression--whatever your scene

In Search of Pure Lust: A Memoir Nightboat Books a coming-of-age story about theWhen Lise Weil came out in 1976, she came out into a land that was all on fire. Lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. At the center of In Search of Pure Lust is Weil's immersion in this culture, this movement: the grand experiment of lesbian feminism of the '70s and '80s. She and the women around her lived in a state of heightened erotic intensity that was, she