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‘Black Bull, Ancestors and Me’ receives Honor Status in 2010 Stonewall Book Awards
 Formerly called the GLBTRT Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award is the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature in the United States. It is an official award of the American Library Association and is given each year at the Association's annual conference.
Each year two awards are given in literature and non-fiction for outstanding works dealing with GLBT issues. ‘Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma’ is one of four books granted Honor Status for the Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award 2010.
Basket of Leaves mentioned on Chekov's mistress blog.
The first thing that grabbed me about Basket of Leaves was seeing that Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky took place in Algeria, not Morocco as I had always thought. Although The Spider’s House, which is set in Morocco, is not in the Basket is really the book of the outsider looking into a culture.
Geoff says this in his interview:
“A visitor to a country doesn’t get the whole picture, even if he or she lives in a country for many years...
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