A review by library_brandy
Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women by Laura André, Candace Walsh

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

As with any collection featuring multiple authors, the essays are hit or miss for me. It's a fascinating look at the wide range of experiences, though, of women who have left their (straight) marriages or relationships after figuring out that they're lesbians. I recognize that the scope of the book is specifically about women leaving men and therefore there are only a couple of essays that address in which the author and her husband are staying together, but my bigger question is about how few of the women here identify as bisexual--and even among those, the bi label is mostly a stepping stone to embracing their newly-discovered gay identity, not a complete identity of its own. I would've liked to have seen more from the actually bi perspective, instead of the casual erasure.