OMG!!! This book is AMAZING!!!! Only wish for either a more conclusive ending, or a sequel... Still, hilarious! Funniest book I'd ever read! Seriously... Uproarious! You'll laugh, cry, scream, tear your preverbal (or literal, I'm not judging) green hair out; you not only feel like...
Edmund White summarizes this quasi-novel best in his first-edition dustjacket blurb: "These are elegant, nightmarish variations on two compressed, mordant themes: love in the time of AIDS and the eternally fragile politics of domestic desire." I quote White here because with this novel, twenty-fi...
The Garden of Lost and Found tells the story of James Ramsay, a 21-yearold man who discovers upon the death of his estranged mother that he’s inherited a building in New York City. James takes up residence at No. 1 Dutch Street, a five-story brownstone near the World Trade Center, whose only othe...
Like a cat. She thought she was a cat. Don’t they usually think they’re a king? I said cat, didn’t I? She thought she was a cat. In my experience they usually think they’re a king. Or something like that. Delusions of grandeur, ain’t that what they call it? The boy’s parents’ voices scale the lad...