[lbo-talk] love stories???

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> If any reader/lurker can recommend a good love story -- short story,
> novelette, or short novel, I'd appreciate it. I  can think of lots,  
> but
> they're all 18th, 19th century longish things. My daughter is OK with
> sad endings and I'm OK if it has sex in it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joanna

How about Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston?  It's  
pretty short (less than 200 pages), and it's 20th century.  This is  
more a woman's bildungsroman than anything else, but a big part of it  
concerns the heroine Janie's love for and conflict with Tea Cake  
(what a name!).

Yoshie Furuhashi
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