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When sculptor and publisher Barb Davis is given an NEA give to couple original feminist sculptures with searing first-person essays on transitions in women's lives, she organizes a two-week writing retreat with 12 of the greatest, brightest, and most notorious lesbian writers available. However in between regularly planned happy time and writing consultations, the women type in a competition bass-fishing competition, receive life coaching from a wise-cracking seafood called Phoebe, and uncover a subterranean world of secrets and wants that is as varied and elusive as the seafood that swim in the waters of Lake Champlain. Established on the beautiful shores of Vermont's Lake Champlain, Backcast is richly filled with an expansive cast of endearing and outrageous characters who struggle writer's stop, quirky locals, personal demons, unpredicted destinations, and even the other person throughout their two-week residency. For Barb and each of her 12 writers, the stakes in this fast-moving history are high, but its mental and affectionate payoffs are slow-moving and sweet. Filled with identical parts laugh-out-loud humor and breathtaking pathos, Backcast serves up a sometimes irreverent, sometimes sobering look at the invisible lives of women, and how they laugh, love, lose, and blunder through their own search for meaning.
