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Like a Woman follows Taylor, a working class white girl too tough and too tender for her own good, who helps friends, rescues strays, and carries her battered copy of Ghandi on Non-Violence everywhere she goes. She reads curled up in the sewer drain by Venice Beach under the shot-out flashing Chevron light, yet still fights at the drop of a dime, cuts johns who say the wrong thing, and steals anything she can get her hands on. Her girlfriend, Jackson, a young African-American street worker who lives in the back of a junk yard totaled limo, dreams of becoming a writer and receives daily guidance from her recently deceased mama. Joining them are fellow homeless street kids; high-end sex workers with Ph.Ds; Eddie, a butch transvestite from Pasadena who runs a 'Speak-Easy' for johns who just want to talk; a fierce and loyal Rottweiler named J.
About the Author
Fiction writer Debra Busman is a West Coast community organizer and professor at CSU Monterey Bay. She currently co-directs the university's Creative Writing and Social Action Program, where she also serves as Department Coordinator of Service Learning. Her work has been published in the Los Angeles Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and the Social Justice Review. Her awards include an Astrea Foundation Award for fiction.
