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The Taste of Glass in a Pillar of Salt
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781069870322
Publisher: Sapphic Spectrum
Published: Mar 18 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Told in lyrical prose, this is a lesbian first-love story, a dark LGBTQ+ literary fiction about sapphic desire, queer identity, religious trauma, and the lasting impact of conversion therapy survival.
Raised in a religious environment that refused to accept her identity, she is a conversion therapy survivor. She spends years trying to believe her same-sex desire could be corrected, but now, many years later, a small party tempts her into an impossible situation, and she is forced to face the reality of the life she tried to build - a life she had told herself was almost enough.
Past and present collide and the illusion that love can be rewritten begins to crack, as the main character struggles to reconcile religious trauma, conversion therapy, lesbian identity, and memories of her first love.
The Taste of Glass in a Pillar of Salt is a sapphic dark literary survival and queer love story about longing, shame, and the impossible weight of trying to become someone else. Told in a lyrical first-person voice, this literary LGBTQ novella explores queer identity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and the legacy of religious trauma, as well as the complicated intersections of love, secrecy, and betrayal. It is a story about secrets, about the lives people build around them, and about what remains when those secrets finally collapse.
For readers of lesbian literary fiction, sapphic romance, queer psychological drama, and LGBT character-driven stories about identity and resilience, this story offers a meditation on love, loss, gender and sexuality, and the cost of trying to become someone else.
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