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The Tipsybibliophile
I love cheap and tasty wine, reading stories about men falling in love and making good food…Here is where I mix all three.
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Moon Called
River Thieves: A Novel
First You Fall
The Child Thief
Beloved Son
Ghost
The Broken Triangle
The Red King
Pretty Shade of Grey
Sursein Judgment
Graham and Tommy have been in love and best friends all their lives. They live in Lincoln County, New Mexico though, and that means that they need to keep the in love part under wraps.Graham is so angry though. It's been two months since Tommy came back from Iraq and not a single word. No a word other than a three line letter the whole year he was gone. A whole year when Graham could barely breathe from worry that Tommy would come home in a casket...I mean sure they've always kept things quiet and Graham has always let Tommy make the first move...Graham is hurt an angry.
And then the're's Baxter his sous chef at the Mad Moose restaurant and a rabid out and proud man who is going on and on all over town about "tolerance" and Graham can barely take it...Lincoln County is not a place where that stuff flies. There's bound to be trouble.
This story is short and poignant, as snapshot of a town, of what happens when a few people decide to garner hate, of what happens to men who come back from war with invisible scars, of love that endures, of priorities, of loyalty.
Loved it. Which it had been longer.