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EW's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 O Magazine's "31 LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" BookRiot's "Most Anticipated Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books of 2020" Atlanta Journal Constitution's "10 Southern Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2020" A stunning novel about the bounds of family and redemption, shines light on an overlooked part of the AIDs epidemic when men returned to their rural communities to die, by Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award-winning author Carter Sickels. Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six...