In 1969, when she is twenty, Martina discovers San Francisco. She lives in a commune, marries her streetcar driver, and moves with her husband to Mendocino County, Ashland, Oregon, and the Virgin Islands. In 1980, Martina comes out and finds her life partner, Tanya. Their son Cooper, conceived by artificial insemination, is born in 1986 during the early wave of lesbians having children. When Cooper is nineteen, the family looks up Cooper’s donor/father and enfolds him and his wife into their family. Meanwhile, in 2008, Martina is diagnosed with tongue cancer. The memoir braids her cancer odyss
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