Downloading Emerald City Blues

When the desperate lives of Reb and Flynn, two lesbian runaways struggling to survive on the streets of Seattle, collide with the comfortable, yuppie life of Chris Olson and Jennifer Hart, the forecast is trouble. But as their very different worlds become intertwined, they discover that they have much in common—all have been battered by love and each has resolved not to risk her heart again.

In this departure from her very popular Isis series, Jean Stewart has written a warmhearted, gritty, enormously readable novel of contemporary lesbigay life—both rich and poor. While introducing a loving circle of funny, sometimes idealistic, sometimes cynical, women and men, Stewart raises real questions about the meaning of family and community, and about the walls we construct. Finally, Emerald City Blues is a celebration of the healing, redemptive power of love.

First published June 1, 1996