Works by
Ruth Perkinson
(Writer)

Vera's Still Point (20006) -- Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction; Nominated 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
A forty-year-old conservative, Vera is a republican lesbian librarian from a rural county in Virginia who each day just keeps doing what she’s always done. She wakes up, treks through her "shelving in the 900’s" days, and puts milk bones out for the dog each night before curling up to read a book and watch the world through her window.

Vera hasn’t had sex in years… and has forgotten exactly why. Then out of nowhere there is a new member of the faculty – Frankie Bourdon – an ex-Navy pilot who left the force to teach in the public schools. Soon Vera is reminded of exactly what it is that she has been missing in life.