Lesbians, Antarctica 

After stealing the family icon, An Jones flees to the bottom of the earth to escape her life and her past. Eight hundred miles north of the South Pole, at Mickey Field, she encounters the stark beauty of Antarctica’s snow and ice covered landscape and Jubilee Oval, a mysterious storyteller and self-proclaimed collector of the secrets everyone "leaks and reeks." Faced with a beautiful but disorienting landscape and a breed of folks as odd as the scenery, An retreats into a dreamy, disconnected state. Jubilee Oval insists that An abandon her seat on the sidelines and delve into the mysteries that lie at the heart of Antarctica. She tells An her tales — myths about the origin of Antarctica and its creatures. Through Jubilee’s stories and her own affinity for the icy barren land, An slowly unearths the secrets of her past but pays an extreme price for the knowledge. Drifting at the Bottom of the World offers a glimpse into Antarctica, a mythical place few people have ever seen. Employing magical realism reminiscent of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, Auden Bailey illuminates the enduring grip of the world’s most remote continent and immerses us in a quirky, compelling universe that will haunt our imaginations long after we have finished reading this engaging first novel. - from Amzon