Subtext

<p>Rife with local color and laugh-out-loud dialogue SUBTEXT A Nervous Novel is a love letter to New York City in the 1990s and the irrepressible gay community.</p><p>The storyline follows a family of friends as they navigate a series of significant events set in The Big Apple. A bartender with a predilection for panic and Twenty-Year Scotch a consummately shirtless soap opera lothario with silver-blue eyes and a Basset Hound named Frank a Broadway starlet whose vocal chops theatrical flops and Clairol Nice'n Easy No. 6R Light Copper curly mops harness the power to heal sorrow-filled souls a va fongooling Staten Island meatball merchandiser with a mishigas for malapropisms and a muscle-ripped motorcycle booted sager-than-he-should-be leather daddy are among the novel's colorful characters.</p><p>When a terrifying hate crime results in a perilously dire outcome each of the family members is forced to take tight hold of their dreams. Together they stumble upon the universal gemstone discoveries that exist between the lines-the subtext of life both hidden and heart-touching. The story's ultimate message delivers a riveting personal narrative of hopes and desires and the disappointments that must be overcome if one is to perceive all the beauty that life has to offer.</p>