A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it."
- ISBN10 1558619100
- ISBN13 9781558619104
- Publish Date 28 April 2016 (first published 22 February 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New York
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English