It's 1978, and Dale Singleton is becoming alarmed as his friend, Ian Kaysen, is afflicted with a mysterious and seemingly untreatable illness characterized by pneumonia, lesions, and dementia. This novel of the first days of AIDS is viscerally affecting, as it conveys the shocked...
Patricia Powell, who was born and raised in Jamaica and emigrated to the United States in the early 1980s, portrays the love felt by two homosexuals for one another. But there are also feelings of despair and threat, set against the Caribbean background of sunshine and oppressive...