Spring has finally arrived, and Elephant’s Bookshelf Press has added another book to its shelves.

Rebecca’s MacLean’s Lover/Child is the first true memoir in the EBP oeuvre–in 2018, we published Which the Days Never Know, a verse memoir by Vietnam veteran Donald McNamara.

MacLean’s poignant love story traces the 44-year relationship between the author and her longtime partner, Betty Brown. Their sometimes turbulent love affair began at an AA meeting in 1976 and ended with Betty’s death from dementia in March of 2020. Over the course of their relationship, they go from “honeymooning” as an old-time butch and femme couple when that is not in fashion, to fighting with each other over Rebecca’s dream of being an opera singer, to finally Rebecca battling the healthcare bureaucracy as Betty disappears into dementia.

Of course, there is more in the pipeline, with the next books in the Game of Five and Kiya series in various stages of production.

If you’re new to EBP, we are an independent publisher of (mostly) fiction, established in 2012, when we published our first short story anthology, Spring Fevers, and we have now released nearly two dozen titles — anthologies, novels, and nonfiction.

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