Laura Z. Hobson

Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.

An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.

An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty.

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.