Sheila Ortiz Taylor

"But when it’s discovered that she’s also a lesbian, the old-boy network goes into fulmination overdrive. Ortiz-Taylor’s tale of how her earthy, earth-mother academic hero saves her job—by rallying an unlikely coalition of immigrant farm workers marching for their rights, hunky male rugby-playing students with a new-found appreciation for poetry, and a freshly liberated if somewhat ditzy Southern-belle housewife—is a delight."