Winner of the Lambda Literary Award "This first novel is so eloquent because it is hellbent on collaring the reader and telling him or her the whole passionate story." –Edmund White, author of Our Young Man "This is a rich and unflinching book." – The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary…an exhilarating experience…that Soehnlein has produced as his first novel a work of such maturity and excellence is little short of astounding." –Fenton Johnson, author of Scissors, Paper,...
Charming underachiever Jamie Garner is living a sexy slacker's life in San Francisco during the dot-com boom–avoiding his stalled career as a radio producer, barely holding on to his relationship, but surrounded by fun-loving friends. And then Jamie gets the call he's always dreaded: Teddy, the father who never accepted him, has died. It's time for the prodigal son to come home to the subdivisions and strip malls of suburban New Jersey to face the emotionally barren family he left...
