The Young in One Another's Arms

“Make no mistake about it—Jane Rule is one of the best writers we have.”—Margaret Laurence

“Lesbian identity itself is not so much subsumed into the community as kept whole within it . . . not singled out as an angle of vision any more or less valid than others.”—Marilyn Schuster, Feminist Studies

Jane Rule’s 1977 novel The Young in One Another’s Arms is set at the end of the Vietnam War in and around a boarding house in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver. Ruth, a middle-aged woman accus...