Susie Dumond is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the author of Queerly Beloved, Looking for a Sign, and Bed and Breakup, and she also talks about books as a senior contributor at Book Riot and a bookseller at her local indie bookstore. Dumond lives in Washington, D.C., with her spouse, Mickey, and her cat, Maple. When she’s not writing or reading, you can find her baking cupcakes or belting karaoke at the nearest gay bar.
At Book Riot Dumond tagged ten "must-read LGBTQ+ historical fiction books." One title on the list:
Cantoras by Caro De RobertisRead about the other entries on the list.
This is one of my all-time favorite books, and one that showed me the immense power of queer historical fiction to carve out spaces for joyand love amidst moments of real homophobic violence. In a time of great danger for queer people in 1970s Uruguay, five queer women find each other and create a refuge from their country’s military dictatorship in a beach shack on Cabo Polonio. Over the course of three decades, we see these women grow together, fall in love, experience loss and heartbreak, and find a path forward. Six years after reading Cantoras, I still can’t stop thinking about this extraordinary story.
Cantoras is among Leslie Archer's six top novels about sisters.
--Marshal Zeringue
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