{"product_id":"the-young-in-one-anothers-arms","title":"The Young in One Another's Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPDATE: Jane Rule has been inducted as a member into the Order of Canada, announced February 20, 2007. In January, Jane also received the Alice B. Toklas Medal (US) for her long and storied career as a lesbian novelist.\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nJane Rule's 1977 novel \u003ci\u003eThe Young in One Another's Arms\u003c\/i\u003e is set at the end of the Vietnam War in and around a boarding house in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver. Ruth, a middle-aged woman accustomed to tragedy in her own life, cares for the young and changing boarders of her house as a mother and guide.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published by Doubleday and reprinted by The Naiad Press, \u003ci\u003eThe Young in One Another's Arms\u003c\/i\u003e is about the building of female communities. Combining issues of race, gender, sexuality and politics, this warm, sophisticated novel celebrates the cameraderie and strength of women against a backdrop of war and tragedy. The novel won the Canadian Authors Association Best Novel of the Year Award in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by novelist Katherine V. Forrest (\u003ci\u003eCurious Wine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaughters of a Coral Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Lesbian identity itself is not so much subsumed into the community as kept whole within it . . . not singled out as an angle of vision any more or less valid than others.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -Marilyn Schuster, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\u003cp\u003eLittle Sister's Classics is a series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print classics of gay and lesbian literature. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister's, the Canadian bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Rule (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733328326949,"sku":"9781551521817","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_ec008688-6b0b-409c-bad5-eb1cd279b637.jpg?v=1679350986","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/the-young-in-one-anothers-arms","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}