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I Dwell in Possibility

Name: I Dwell in Possibility
Author: Toni McNaron
ISBN: 9781558610491

by Toni McNaron

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In this moving autobiography, Toni McNaron bravely depicts her early encounters with racism in pre-civil rights Alabama alongside her personal struggle with sexual identity. This book is a powerful social document as well as a brave account of one woman's emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over five decades. "An engrossing read in the tradition of Audre Lorde's Zami and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings."-Susan Stanford Friedman, Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marketing Plans for I Dwell in Possibility:
Updates new edition of the ground-breaking 1992 memoir
Radio interviews, author reading, and tour in the Midwest
Extensive outreach to the gay and lesbian media

Toni McNaron teaches women's studies and English at the University of Minnesota and is the editor of The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century.

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As a lesbian coming into womanhood in the 1950s and starting her career in the 1960s, McNaron writes movingly about the years she spent closeted about her sexuality and unable to make real connections with friends and lovers in an environment and at a time when homosexuality was still a taboo subject. She hints throughout the book about her growing alcoholism but never really states that there was a connection between her having to hide her lesbianism and her need to drink. However, the day McNaron decided to give up drinking was also the day she decided to ``come out.'' Her own treatment of the important subjects in her life seems uneven and many times disjointed, and she leaves the reader feeling there should be much more to expect from an autobiography than what McNaron delivers. Still, her book adds to the growing literature of women's memoirs and is recommended for women's studies and lesbian history collections.-- Patricia Sarles, Mt. Sinai Medical Ctr. Lib., New York