sentences:  "O Street" was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2007.The ten stories collected in "O Street" revolve around the life of young professional Elizabeth Dinard, who has escaped an impoverished and abusive childhood in New Jersey but still suffers its effects in adulthood.Each story, told from the perspective of Beth herself or one of the people around her, explores a different period of her troubled life.