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ending. Just as Scheherazade spun magical
tales for 1,001 nights
to save her own life,
Fatima has spent each
night telling Scheherazade
her life‘s stories, all
the while knowing that
on the 1,001st night, her
storytelling will end forever.
But before that she
wants to marry off her
openly gay actor grandson
Amir - to a woman. How convenient that
he‘s been bored by his last gay relationship.
Armistead Maupin:
Mary Ann in Autumn.
Tales of the City, Vol. VIII. USA 2010,
304 pp., brochure, € 19.95
20 years have passed
since Mary Ann Singleton
left her husband and
child in San Francisco to
pursue her dream of a TV
career in New York. Now,
a pair of personal calamities
has driven her back
to the city of her youth
and into the arms of
her oldest friend, Michael
»Mouse« Tolliver, a gay gardener happily ensconced
with his much-younger husband. Mary
Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple‘s backyard
cottage, where, at the unnerving age of
57, she licks her wounds and takes stock of
her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook
and a few old friends, she begins to reengage
with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her
speckled past comes back to haunt her in a way
she could never have imagined. Among those
caught in Mary Ann‘s orbit are her estranged
daughter, Shawna, a popular sex blogger, Jake
Greenleaf, Michael‘s transgendered gardening
assistant, socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson, and
the indefatigable Anna Madrigal, Mary Ann’s
former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane.
Michael Salvatore:
Between Boyfriends.
USA 2010, 325 pp., brochure, € 13.99
Single, slightly neurotic Steven B. Ferrante loves
his sharp-tongued, loyal friends, his chaotic job
as producer for the daytime soap »If Tomorrow
Never Comes«, and his crazy Sicilian mother,
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not necessarily in that order. Yet at 33, his life is
a little like the peppermint mocha coffee drinks
that are his favorite indulgence - fun, frothy, but
only superficially satisfying.
Four years after his
boyfriend kicked him to
the curb, Steven is still
trying to find a replacement.
There‘s been no
shortage of casual couplings
and one night (or
less) stands, but while
other body parts are catered
to, his heart still
wants something more. Someone to share sexy
Sunday mornings and shopping trips to buy
unnecessary kitchen appliances. Somebody to
love. And maybe he‘s finally found it.
James Hannaham: God Says No.
USA 2010, 305 pp., brochure, € 12.99
Gary Gray marries his first
girlfriend, a fellow student
from Central Florida
Christian College who
loves Disney World as
much as he does. They
are both 19, god-fearing,
and eager to start a
family, but a week before
their wedding Gary goes
into a rest-stop bathroom
and lets something happen. This is his testimony
- the story of a young black Christian
struggling with desire and belief, with his love
for his wife and his appetite for other men, told
in a singular, emotional voice. Driven by desperation
and religious visions, the path that Gary
Gray takes - from revival meetings to out life in
Atlanta to a pray-away-the-gay ministry in Memphis
- gives a riveting picture of how a life like
his can be lived, and how it can‘t.
James Buchanan: All or Nothing.
USA 2010, 340 pp., brochure, € 13.29
In the third book of the »Taking the Odds«
series, the author delves deeper in the relationship
between Nevada agent Nick O‘Malley
and Riverside detective Brandon Carr. Brandon
brings his daughter, Shayna, to Las
Vegas to meet Nick. Nick has his own reasons
for pushing Brandon toward a deeper
commitment. But when the unthinkable happens,
what every cop knows ends in tragedy,