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Onyx

Onyx

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Jesse and Ray, a longtime Brooklyn couple, are quietly adjusting to Jesse's rapid decline in health. It's 1992, and there's little that medicine can do for the AIDS-stricken Jesse. After the successful completion of his last ad campaign, he leaves his firm and settles in at home. In the meantime, the two men have taken on Ray's teenage nephew and 9-year-old niece, and Ray, a music producer, has begun a sexual affair with a straight married truck driver. All seems to be going smoothly, the transitions gradual, the pain modulated by love, until Jesse's vengeful mother arrives to exert her will over Jesse's last months. Onyx is one of Picano's best books, a consistently interesting story recounted in flexible, detailed prose, flowering now and then into luminous descriptive passages that rival the work of the best American novelists. --Regina Marler
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