GLBTQ Annotation

By Steve Kluger

Publication Date: 2004

Number of Pages: 354

Time Period: 1978; 1998

Synopsis:

During their senior year at a New York boarding school, Travis and Craig fall in love.  It is an unlikely pairing—Travis is book smart and obsessed with musicals and Broadway.  Craig is popular student and star baseball player.  However, each completes the other. 

As with many high school relationships, they attempt to stay in touch, yet become wrapped up in college life.  Twenty years later, Travis is a successful college professor looking for love while Craig has become a lawyer in a long-term relationship with Clayton.  Travis realizes that in order to move on with his life, he needs to reconnect with Craig, so he drops everything and hitchhikes across the country.  Travis hopes that this will be a pleasant surprise for Craig and they will be able to rekindle the magic of “first love”.

GLBTQ

Two men falling in love and in a gay relationship.

Read-Alikes:

B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy

If This World Were Mine by E. Lynn Harris

The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley

Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner

The Men from the Boys by William J. Mann

Sweet Fire by Sarah Brady

Trowchester Blues by Alex Beecroft

My Thoughts:

This novel is told in epistolary format.  The story unfolds with checklists, emails, letters, etc. which keeps the narrative interesting.  The love story is very sweet and does make you wonder what happened to those you had past romantic connections with in your life.  There were many fairy tale like moments in the story.  The descriptions of love were very natural and would be a good introduction for anyone new to man/man relationships.