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384 pages, Paperback
First published April 9, 2024
"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks.
"Off."
Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them.
He has never been much good at wanting things, Gene. I's a foreign feeling to him. Hope? Hope is comfortable, well-won. His favorite, most familiar feeling. But hope isn't selfish; hope is so easy to turn in someone else's direction. Wanting, though. Wanting has always felt presumptuous - to ask for something, something unlikely and rare, and then actually, really hope to get it? All for himself? He doesn't do that.
So Gene lets himself want Luis, and this unlikely little life they have. No caveats, no asterisks, no gimmicks— he wants, and he wants, and he lets himself have it.