Mourning Light

Set in Madison Wisconsin and New Haven Connecticut in the early days of the AIDS epidemic <i>Mourning Light</i> is a semi-autobiographical love story. Our narrator Reb (so named by his mother because of her love of the Daphne du Maurier novel <i>Rebecca</i>) is hounded by guilt over the death of his lover Anthony which took place on the same day Reb first met the handsome yet enigmatic Eric. Once Reb becomes convinced that Anthony has sent him a cryptic message from beyond the grave he becomes obsessed with figuring out what it could mean.<br>  <br> Told in a series of flashbacks and remembrances the novel concludes with a whirlwind of revelations that both complicate and resolve Reb's view of his world and his lover.