Pulp (by Robin Talley)

This young adult novel is about a lesbian teenager who discovers the amazing world of 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. It's told in parallel with a story about a girl from the 1950s who discovers it too, amidst the Lavender Scare of the McCarthy era, and the consequences of that discovery.

I loved this book more in concept than in execution. There was something didactic about it, something a bit told rather than shown.  It's impossible not to get sucked into the stories, though, especially Janet's in the 1950s, especially when you get a hint as to her eventual fate. It made me want to read a non-fiction book about this time period.