Michael Chabon's sprawlg novel featur a multiracial st of characters, om gay teens to former blaxploatn stars. It's a celebratn and gentle sendup of the untercultural norms and racial polics of life the Bay Area, revolvg around efforts by two men to save their rerd store.
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MICHAEL CHABON IS AAID HE DIDN’T MAKE ‘STAR TREK: PIRD’ OBVLY GAY ENOUGH. REALLY.
Bee of Chabon’s refal to phemize the protagonist’s homosexual experienc, he attracted a substantial gay followg.
Chabon nceived the novel on the heels of his own abily to refe the massive mancript that he had origally tend as his sophomore effort. Their varly humane and hilar portras of queerns and same-sex love and lt—and the everyday liv of those who experience them—are illumatg, whether you’re gay, straight, or somewhere between. Meticuloly rearched and ttly plotted, books such as The Last of the We (1956) and The Persian Boy (1972) naturalistilly pict gay love agast a vivid, betifully renred backdrop of war and polil BaldwJam BaldwUPI/Bettmann ArchiveBaldw’s semal novel Gvanni’s Room (1956), about a tragic love affair between a nfed Amerin man and his Italian boyiend Paris, unflchgly exam the societal prejudic that kept (and ntue to keep) many people om acknowledgg their sexual AokiAoki is an Amerin wrer of Japane scent who is bt known for her llectns, cludg Seasonal Veloci (2012) and Why Dt Shall Never Settle upon This Soul (2015), and her novels, cludg He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light om Unmon Stars (2021).