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1:15 PM – Saturday – Book Club
January 18, 2020 @ 1:15 pm - 4:00 pm
What: Oranges
By: Gary Eldon Peter
Host: Rick
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: January 18th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Gary Eldon Peter writes revealingly about things we all experience. The haunting aura left by a former lover. Sparks of humor even in tending to grim details of a dying parent. The incompleteness, the compromises, of our closest relationships.
Linking the collection is Michael, a 40-something lawyer who has lost a longtime lover to AIDS. Michael has a boyfriend, Stephen, and is helping care for his dying mother and aging father.
In the bittersweet title story, Michael’s plain-spoken mom, who is in chemotherapy for cancer, loves the oranges that he brings when he drives down to Iowa from Minneapolis to visit her. In “Sun Country,” he visits his widowed father at a chilly retirement colony in Florida. What gay child can’t relate when it becomes clear that talking with your dad about golf, travel schedules and car cleaning proves much easier than tackling a discussion of a son’s gayness?
Claude Peck, Star Tribune
