A Small Gathering of Bones
2003
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
140
Number of Pages
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 puzzlement of those troubled by Ian's condition while simultaneously documenting Jamaican society's struggle to accept the dignity of gay love. Dale's world collapses, yet his experience of being gay in a middle-class culture circumscribed by church, family, and compulsory heterosexuality is hauntingly memorable-and familiar.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
105
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
42%
3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
3%
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