Description:
Amy's wonderful girlfriend, Robin--who loves salmon omelets, mountain hikes, and impromptu picnics--has asked her to move in with her, and her response is to fly (or flee) home to Wisconsin for a visit, having heard her mother mention that a girl named Gina, Amy's childhood love, still lives in town. When Amy arrives at Gina's house, heart in her throat, she learns that Gina has been caring for their old friend Gavin, a cross-dresser even in childhood and the victim of countless games of Smear the Queer. Gavin doesn't have HIV, though; he has anorexia. Despite her conflicting feelings toward him, Amy finds herself putting off her return flight to Seattle so that she can try to cure whatever's wrong with Gavin--and herself--and recapture an opportunity she once let pass between herself and Gina. Although tentative at the opening, this debut novel builds momentum and eventually pulls the reader into the spiral of memories that draws Amy back into her troubled past and away from her outwardly happy life with Robin.
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