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A Fragile Circle: A Memoir |
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The personal memoir has become the genre of choice for many writing about AIDS. Works such as Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast, Fenton Johnson's Geography of the Heart, and Amy Hoffman's Hospital Time have brought home to many readers the pain, suffering, and emotional confusion engendered by the disease by detailing the daily routine of caring for a loved one with AIDS. Mark Senak's A Fragile Circle is distinct from other AIDS memoirs in that it charts the crisis from two specific perspectives. In the mid-1980s, right after law school, Senak began working at New York's Gay Men's Health Crisis. There was little doubt then that an AIDS crisis existed, but what to do about it remained an enormous question. Senak writes of the confusion and near-despair that reigned at the time as lawyers, social workers, and doctors attempted to address problems they had never identified, let alone faced, before. Senak simultaneously tells the story of his relationship with Joe, an HIV-positive man also diagnosed with lung cancer. These sections form the emotional heart of A Fragile Circle and infuse the rest of Senak's tales of legal and social activism with passion and insight. One vital aspect of AIDS writing is to bear witness, and this A Fragile Circle does beautifully. --Michael Bronski
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