{"product_id":"testimony-paperback-2","title":"Testimony - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaula Martinac\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn rural Virginia in 1960, history professor Gen Rider has secured tenure at Baines College, a private school for white women. A woman in a man's field, she teaches \"Negro\" history, which has made her suspect with a powerful male colleague. Even while she's celebrating her triumph, she's also mourning the break-up of a long-distance relationship with another woman--a romance she has tightly guarded, even from her straight female mentor.\u003cbr\u003e As the fall semester dawns, a male instructor at the college is arrested for having sex with a man in a park. Homosexual panic envelops the college town, launching a \"Know Your Neighbor\" reporting campaign. The police investigation directly threatens Gen's friend Fenton, the gay theater director at Baines. But Gen finds herself vulnerable, too, when someone leaves mysterious \"gifts\" for her, including a suggestive pulp novel and a romantic card.\u003cbr\u003e As Gen tentatively embarks on a new relationship, a neighbor reports she's seen Gen kissing a woman, and hearings into her morality catch her in a McCarthy-like web. With her private life under the microscope, Gen faces an agonizing choice: Which does she value more, the career she's scraped to build against the odds or her right to a private life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePAULA MARTINAC is the author of five published novels and a collection of short stories. Her debut novel \u003ci\u003eOut of Time\u003c\/i\u003e won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and \u003ci\u003e The Ada Decades\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award. She has published three nonfiction books on lesbian and gay culture and politics as well as numerous articles, essays, and short stories. Also a playwright, her works have had productions with Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, No Name Players, and others. Martinac is a 2019-2020 Artist Fellowship Recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council and in 2019 she received a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts \u0026amp; Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 275\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47249916592377,"sku":"9781612941790","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/azUvVHQreXo3djVnZUZTcTdzQlNWQT09_614bfb9f-c029-4418-94b6-cdad94f29ee4.webp?v=1768653138","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/testimony-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}