National Network for Equitable Library Service

Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery Prize
Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award

"In Contract with the World, the setting is Vancouver, and the time is the mid-1970s.

Two women meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada. This classic of lesbian eroticism is Jane Rule's first novel.

In a well-to-do Trinidadian family, a father and his daughter struggle to find their true identities, both as individuals and as members of a tightly structured, traditional household.