Victoria A. Brownworth je ocenená novinárka a spisovateľka, ktorej dielo sa často zameriava na témy queer komunity a sociálnej spravodlivosti. Jej štýl je prenikavý a priamy, čo čitateľom umožňuje hlboko sa ponoriť do tém, ktoré skúma. Skúma životné skúsenosti marginalizovaných skupín a dáva im hlas prostredníctvom svojich textov. Jej písanie slúži ako silný nástroj na presadzovanie porozumenia a empatie, spochybňovanie spoločenských noriem a oslavu rozmanitosti ľudských príbehov.
Contains six stories, set primarily in New Orleans, including the title work in which Maeve, fearful she is dying after days of living in the streets, finds a friend in an AIDS clinic who helps her recover long enough to get home to London.
Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, these 20th Century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of "sapphics" and "inverts" in the classic lesbian novel *The Well of Loneliness,* her friend Natalie Barney was riding naked through the streets of Paris on horseback with her lover, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller's sensual wife, June.