"Letters From The Closet" tells the story of Adam and Katie who are engaged to be married until Adam unexpectedly breaks off the relationship and leaves town. When they reconnect years later, Katie is living happily with her lesbian life partner and Adam is a Jesuit priest. It is a beautiful story of coming out and learning to love genuinely. It addresses issues of parents, children, gender, religion and other subjects. The story is told through their correspondence, cleverly reproduced here in beautifully illustrated postcards that can be slipped out of hand-crafted mailboxes and soulful journal entries. The reader, regardless of sexual orientation, will identify deeply with this emotionally moving story of romance, personal growth and overcoming the obstacle of prejudice in our society.
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...full of intriguing plot twists and fascinating characters, (reaching) out to two communities: (empowering) gays/lesbians, (educating) heterosexuals. -- Pam Walton, producer of award-winning video, "Gay Youth"
...gorgeous artwork lifts this excellently written collection of letters, journal entries and postcards to levels yet untouched by gay authors. -- Mom Guess What Newspaper, August 15, 1994
Fascinating characters, delightfully presented... "Letters From The Closet" is larger than the sum of its parts - and deserves its popularity. -- Bay Windows, November 24, 1994
...gorgeous artwork lifts this excellently written collection of letters, journal entries and postcards to levels yet untouched by gay authors. -- Mom Guess What Newspaper, August 15, 1994
Fascinating characters, delightfully presented... "Letters From The Closet" is larger than the sum of its parts - and deserves its popularity. -- Bay Windows, November 24, 1994
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Paulette Jacobson is a nationally recognized speaker known for her quick wit and humor. She began "Shades of Diversity" training seminars in 1980 to help education, business and human service professionals learn to successfully manage diversity in the workplace. She lives and works on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
delightful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Letters from the Closet (Hardcover)
like the other reviewer from the philippines, i wasn't planning to buy that book (since i didn't know that a book like that exists). when i entered a mall (maybe the same mall, not sure), my friend told me to visit this unique book store that sells second-hand books and some hard-to-find books. and immediately i saw it! there were stacks of copies stashed in a corner and my friend was delighted to see a griffin-and-sabine-type of book in that store. it costs for only 35 pesos here (roughly equivalent to less than 1 US dollar). so i wonder how come it's out-of-stock there and there are less than a hundred copies lying around in god-knows-where store in manila? for those who are loooking for this book, better hurry til supplies last (m planning to buy more for my friends)!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fabulous!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Letters from the Closet (Hardcover)
I wasn't planning on buying this book. In fact, i didn't know that such book existed. One day, I was roaming around the mall. I went across a bookstore that's selling some interesting reading materials. Finally, I saw "Letters From The Closet". I was particularly amazed of the way it was presented. I mean, visually. It was presented in a unique way. The concept was fantastic. You can read it in one sitting without stopping. It's a n easy-to-read book. You wouldn't get bored reading it. About the story, I think not only gay people can relate to it. Anybody can relate to it with regards to attitude. A lot of people have a lot of secrets that they fear of telling anyone. It's but a natural thing. You cannot always say everything to a person. There has to be a right timing for it. A proper way of saying it. In this book, it was shown that all people are human beings. They did not choose to be the persons they are. But one thing's for sure. They are human beings and everyone should treat them with respect and respect whatever decisions they make in their lives. The only thing I regret about reading this book is that it has an open-ended ending. I wish there's a sequel to this book. I've been trying to look for a part 2 of this book. I hope you could help me out.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Stereotyped and embarrassing,
By Ivy (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Letters from the Closet (Hardcover)
It's rare that a book is published without any redeeming features whatsoever, but Letters from the Closet is that book. The writing is bad, the characters are one-dimensional, the plot is cliched and painful, and even the editing is bad. Worst of all, Letters from the Closet promulgates stereotypes and misinformation. Letters from the Closet consists of letters, postcards, journal entries, and memos relating to the life and times of Adam and Katie. Adam and Katie are a couple; Adam leaves Katie; Adam becomes a priest; Katies comes out as a lesbian; Adam comes out as a gay man; the book ends, mercifully, but on a truly sappy note. It should surprise no one that, in the course of the book, Adam struggles with his faith, or that he gets into trouble for teaching about homosexuality to his theology class, or that he takes a moral stand and is ousted from his job, or that one of his theology students proves to be gay. Every new page presents a new cliche or a new stereotype. If these cliches just made the book dull and painful to read, I wouldn't consider it an evil book. But cliches applied in this way do real harm because they trivialize the gay community and they trivialize both the difficulties and the rewards of our lives. If all homophobes were idiots (as the authors wittily imply by filling the letter from the Token Homophobes with spelling, grammatical, and content errors and then marking up the page like it was a homework assignment), they would not be so dangerous. If all gays and lesbians were so deeply caring, thoughtful, and agonizingly tormented, it would be perfectly acceptable to treat us all as a single entity. Letters from the Closet presents an utterly one-dimensional view of gays and lesbians, their families and employers, their allies and foes, and in so doing does us all a great disservice. Please, if you want to read an entertaining book of letters, read Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock. If you want to learn about the gay and lesbian community, read Auden or Duffy or Isherwood or White or Rich or almost anyone other than these authors. I'm especially horrified to see that people are using this as a text in human sexuality classes; teachers, I beg you - let the gays and lesbians of this world speak through intelligent, literate, and *truthful* works, not this trite and insulting book.
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