Introduction by Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
 
We Too Are Drifting is a landmark in American literature; the first mainstream novel that dealt with lesbian relationships in a straightforward, unapologetic manner. Written in spare, precise prose, it relates sculptor Jan Morale’s affair with the married Madeline and her love for Victoria, a younger woman torn between her attraction to Jan and her promise to marry the man approved by her family.
 
The novel has been cherished by generations of readers for its frank account of queer love free of any suggestion of judgement or prurience. Gale Wilhelm takes her characters and their desires at face value, conveying deep emotions with unusual intensity. Out of print for almost forty years, we have made the novel available again, along with four never-before-collected short stories by the same author.
 
“Probably the major novel of the thirties to deal with lesbians; perhaps the best of all time.... Exceptional literary merit.” Marion Zimmer Bradley
 
“This is quite an extraordinary first novel.” Los Angeles Times
 
“We Too Are Drifting has that telling simplicity which is as difficult to achieve in books as it is in clothes. Miss Wilhelm's writing is beautifully explicit and pointed, cleared of inessentials.” Books