A review by paigewajda
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton

4.0

A kind of sapphic true-life Hallmark story, Moby Dyke does get a bit repetitive and the writer is very much hung up on everyone's ages (the phrase 'baby dyke' is written about 9000 times) but like a cup of soup on a sick day, I found that this really warmed my soul. It's charming, in-depth, funny, and full of lovable bartenders and patrons, and it really makes me want to visit the Midwest, which is a sentence I never thought I would type. I particularly like the injections of memoir we get periodically; Burton relays tales from her childhood, coming out, and the slow reconcile with her Mormon parents, which was particularly tender and well-written.