Description
At sixty, Harriet Hatfield begins a new adventure. Her friend of thirty years has died and left her enough money to fund her dream of running a women's book- store. But when Hatfield House: A Bookstore for Women opens in a blue- collar neighborhood near Boston, Har- riet is bombarded by anonymous threats and obscenities are written on the windows.
Then a Boston Globe reporter head- lines her interview, Lesbian Bookstore Owner Threatened, and the education of Harriet begins. Never before has she thought of herself as a member of a persecuted minority. Now she has "come out," and doors begin to open in every direction for this innocent abroad who has become a target for some and a heroine for others. At the end, Harriet stands undismayed in the door she her- self has opened into the disturbing world of homophobia.
