Sweetheart

Boys Like Us Trilogy Book 2 – In Peter McGehee’s debut novel Boys Like Us reviewers noted his lean mostly-in-dialogue fast-paced comedy of manners with an arresting theme (“I lose people …”) fascinating contemporary urban folklore and a superbly funny airplane scene. In Sweetheart Zero MacNoo is back in hilarious new situations adding a dreamboat lover a precocious child crooner a first-cousin-first-love porn star and some lesbian garage mechanics … as the AIDS plague continues to descend.Two wildly divergent worlds – Zero’s fiercely eccentric Southern family in Arkansas and the sophisticated urban gay community of Toronto where he lives now – collide. His cousin Trebreh the porn star parks his teenaged daughter with Zero complicating an already complex life as he tries to balance a budding romance AIDS activism and family responsibilities.Though Sweetheart is a novel about AIDS survival McGehee carries off this grim topic with wry wit and warmth. It was published posthumously. This new edition is accompanied by introductions from Dr Raymond-Jean Frontain and long-time collaborator Fiji Robinson.. “A genuinely delightful gay domestic comedy so full of tangy dialogue and wacky situations that it screams for the stage or better yet the screen.” — Booklist. “An utterly delightful book. I enjoyed every word of it!” — Quentin Crisp. “Accomplishes what may seem impossible: a humorous romp in the face of widespread death.” — Library Journal