Award-winning author Carter Sickel’s fantastic Lambda Literary Emerging Writer novel about family restraints and childbirth highlights the neglected part of the AIDS epidemic when men returned to their rural communities to die.
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Carter Sickels’ most beautiful star makes clear in her introductory sentences that too many strange stories have been kept out of sight. Here, the man returns to his childhood town in southern Ohio, where his daily survival is in danger. Love will not save her, nor her family and friends, extinguished by her presence. Nothing changes, there is no magic, says one character, and although there is darkness in these words, its realistic salinity gives much to say why this novel feels so touching, impressive, rebellious and real.
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Not much is happening in the small town, Appalachia, but that’s where Brian comes from, where his family comes from and where he chose to return to death.
At the age of eighteen, Brian, like many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York with little more than the love of freedom and liberation from his past that he promised. But in six short years, AIDS demands its lovers, friends and future. With nothing in New York but memories of his death, Brian decides to write a letter to his mother asking her to return to the place, and with the family he was once so desperate to escape.
1986, one year after Rock Hudson’s death, changed public awareness of the epidemic and brought AIDS news to living rooms and kitchens across the United States, the most beautiful star is part of the dog years. Mark Doty and a part of Carolin who count the wolf.
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