Book Club for Queers hosted by Cliterature

rescheduled from January

Are you ready to read a new book with us? This month’s book is The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith! We’ll be discussing it on February 19th. Thank you to our friend Erika for her exciting description of this book 🥰

“’The Price of Salt’ by Patricia Highsmith is an utterly foundational work of queer literature. At a time when publishers required any lesbian stories to end in tragedy, ‘The Price of Salt’ bucked that trend and portrayed a truly happy ending for its sapphic lovers. While it might read a little differently to what we’re used to today, the novel is still immensely valuable as a cultural artifact, and is absolutely still relevant to modern audiences.

This is made evident by the book’s incredible 2015 cinematic adaptation, ‘Carol’, which is also absolutely worth your time. It has Cate Blanchett’s perfect, golden head dipping between another woman’s legs, what more could you want? Subtly masterful cinematography depicting the struggles and hidden joys of being gay in the 50’s? Well, it has that too. Enjoy 💜”