Having taken great risks -- to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows -- Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Fay
A profound meditation on accepting, and celebrating, one’s solitude.Whether seeking more time for solitude or suffering what seems a surfeit of it, readers will find the best of companions here. Fento
The author of Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock presents a poignant memoir of love, coming of age, illness, and tragic loss in the era of the AIDS epidemic as he interweaves his own story w
Part retrospective, part memoir, Fenton Johnson's collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality, religion, geography, the AIDS crisis, and more. Johnson's wanderings take him from th
The stories collected here in Volume One are among the earliest in Blaise's forty-year publishing career. The experience of Florida -- particularly the underdeveloped north-central areas close to mode
Sophie Newton, determined to prove her business acumen to the father who doubts her, opens a beach-side taco stand called The Sandy Tortilla. It all goes swimmingly-that is, until she loses her summer
Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his
Make no mistake, Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Yet to see her after almost twenty years of marriage, that might
