My Lesbian Husband

“A book to be savored—lying with your head in your girlfriend’s lap.” —Out

“An empathetic writer who can do justice to simple happiness and complicated love.” —Ms.

“A passionate, intricately composed memoir of the author’s long-term love relationship, set against the backdrop of their Minneapolis neighborhood and complicated family ties. With colorful, witty, richly woven prose, Borich invites the reader into a life that is at once ordinary and wholly unique.” —Kirkus Reviews

“What a gift! In language as charged as the air between lovers, Barrie Borich offers us a gorgeous and tender aria to marriage. She tells of discovering with astonishment, through twelve years of devotion to the same sturdy woman, how much she delights in fidelity. Through it all, she writes like a woman possessed—enraptured by the sensual pleasures of words, by the power of stories, by the gravity of neighborhood. She reminds us that marriage is made not by the joining of bodies shaped a certain way, but by the joining of two lives, careers, and histories in one place, in one embrace.” —Scott Russell Sanders

“In My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich asks a fascinating question: do the names we give our relationships change their meanings? Each chapter entertains an aspect of this question with prose that is spirited, artful, anything but pat. Here is an author who takes neither love nor the power of language for granted, and her book is as provocative and lively as the love it evokes. An extraordinary performance by a writer who renews our wonder at the complexity of human connection.” —Bernard Cooper