A likeable, intelligent high school senior, Mateo Bernard is new to Little Rock. Cody Redan has lived there all his life. Yet, when they meet, there's a familiarity, a sense they've known each other before. By turns funny, romantic, insightful, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. is a unique contribution to coming of age literature. A haunting vision of young friendship shattered by an outrageously cruel world. The novel aches with adolescent first loves. It is tender, funny, and true. - William S. Burroughs, author of Commands much of J.R. Ackerley's honesty, intimacy, and ease of style. Real warmth. - Jonathan Williams, A sense of life, the search for identity, intellectual militancy, the ambiguity of human relationships, unsatisfied desire, and weakness in facing existence are just some of the facets of life that the author evokes with precision. - (Brussels) This novel is a must. (Asheville, NC) Poetically evokes the pathos of early friendships and the frailty of adolescent dreams. The author has given his novel characters with tenderness, wit, and humanity. You should rush to purchase this book--a remarkable novel that deserves wide readership. (San Francisco) Top of the heap of gay fiction. (Boston) The message transcends common reality. ... The author charts the victory of substance over appearance, of everlasting truths over transient physical relationships. His characters give off warmth and forthrightness in equal portions. (Houston) Evokes the pain, strong emotions, and exclusiveness of adolescence. It deserves a broad audience. (Virginia Beach) A triumphant portrait of adolescent love. (Portland)