If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) Unprotected is a record of

Unprotected is a record of survival

She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children

Francis Dupuis-Déri is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the Institut de Recherches et d'études Féministes at the Université du Québec à Montréal

and in the process

he moves to Berkeley for a fresh start with his kid brother

If I Had the Wings: Short Stories Taoist) Unprotected is a record ofGrowing up gay in the small Greek Bahamian community, which feels its traditional culture and religious pieties are under threat, is fraught with constraints and even danger. The main characters in Helen Klonaris's poetic, inventive and sometimes transgressive collection of short stories confront this reality as part of their lives. Yet there are also ways in which young women in several of the stories search for roots in that tradition to find within