| At sixty, Harriet Hatfield begins a newadventure. Her friend of thirty years hasdied and left her enough money to fundher dream of running a women s book-store. But when Hatfield House: ABookstore for Women opens in a blue-collar neighborhood near Boston. Har-riet is bombarded by anonymous threatsand obscenities are written on thewindows. Then a Boston Globe reporter head-lines her interview, Lesbian BookstoreOwner Threatened, and the education ofHarriet begins. Never before has shethought of herself as a member of apersecuted minority. Now she has " comeout," and doors begin to open in everydirection for this innocent abroad whohas become a target for some and aheroine for others. At the end. Harrietstands undismayed in the door she her-self has opened into the disturbing worldof homophobia. |
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