To Sappho, My Sister: Lesbian Sisters Write about Their Lives

Janet Money, formerly the sports editor of the Woodstock Daily
Sentinel-Review, is a freelance writer and editor in London, Ontario.

Lesbians who have lesbian sisters will probably most enjoy this
anthology of personal stories by lesbians from Canada, the United
States, Germany, and Australia. But editor Lee Fleming, who includes her
own story with sister Louise Fleming, has amassed a collection that will
appeal to almost anyone interested in true stories about family
dynamics. To fully appreciate the collection’s 18 stories, the book is
best read in small sections.

There are older sisters who served as role models for younger sisters
in coming out of the closet; there are sisters who are soulmates and
sisters who have not gotten along for years; there are even groups of
three sisters, all lesbians. There are famous lesbians (Alix Dobkin, the
Washington Sisters, Barbara Grier) and so-called “ordinary
lesbians.”

This is the first collection of its kind. Many lesbians wonder what it
would be like to have a lesbian sister, and those who already do
probably wonder what others who have lesbian sisters are feeling. This
book amply answers those wonderings.