Desire Lines

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Desire Lines</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a Black teenager growing up gay in Brooklyn is captivated by a vision of life on the other side of the river where the sparkle and glitter of Manhattan beckon. Coming into adulthood he finds himself living in a five-floor walk-up in Hell's Kitchen just as the AIDS epidemic is hitting the city.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We follow him and his group of friends as they experience the first wave of illness and death and then accompany him on a two-year journey to Zaire Central Africa where he must confront corruption and homophobia in new and unexpected ways. Back in New York he and his best friend-a biracial straight woman-try to find their place in a rapidly changing and increasingly perilous city that threatens to destroy first their friendship and then the narrator himself.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At once graphic intimate and harrowing </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Desire Lines</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a roller coaster journey through gay New York in the 1980s--the sex the drugs and the trauma of AIDS--a moment marked equally by dramatic devastation and the fierce determination to survive.</span></p><p><br></p>