Scissors, Paper, Stone

"A compelling family drama resonant with feminist and queer issues, Martha K. Davis's Scissors, Paper, Stone neatly captures the grit of intimacy as relationships expand and contract...Davis sustains a beautiful tension between the women. Despite all that distances them, they're in each other's lives for good or ill. Like the children's game of the title, they come together, face off, and drift apart, though at heart they're a set, compelled to find the parts that complete it in each other, even if their connections are attended by confrontation." --Foreword Reviews--Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers "LITERARY / LGBT FICTION "
"With Scissors, Paper, Stone, Martha K. Davis has given us an ambitious coming of (lesbian) age story that is a movingly honest inquiry into the messy, yet still beautiful, transmogrification of what it means to be a family in a post-WWII America ruptured by racism, homophobia, . . . and the generational divide. The character of Cathy, the idealistic and unsuspecting . . . single mother of an adopted Korean child, is one for the ages: a vessel for all the good intentions and fumbling contradictions of her time."--Celeste Gainey, author of the GAFFER, final judge for the 2016 Quill Award

"Martha K. Davis writes with rare insight and compassion about the evolving American family and the struggle to belong. Scissors, Paper, Stone is a wise and affecting novel."--Hilma Wolitzer, author of The Doctor's Daughter and An Available Man