Length11h
About this audiobook
The mid-40s are that time in a gay man's life when his major paradigm shifts from sexy to Sansabelts. But when Barry Grooms's partner of twenty years is killed on Barry's forty-fifth birthday, his world doesn't so much evolve as it does explode.
After navigating through the surreal conveyor belt of friends and family, he can't eat another casserole or swallow much more advice on what constitutes grief. Still numb, he leaves his homestore and design business in the care of others as he escapes to Key West, then New York. There he gets a thankless new job working for a crazy lady in a poncho, then has too many drinks with a narcissistic Broadway actor. Next it's a nude exercise class that redefines flop sweat, and from there he's on to a relationship with a man twenty years his junior.
Yet no matter how great the retreat from the man he used to be, life's gravity spins Barry back to the small town where he grew up for one more ironic twist that teaches him how to say goodbye with grace.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.9 (93)
Includes Goodreads
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length11 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 16, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: "You Change"
2Chapter 1: Blue Roses
3Chapter 2: A Seismic Event
4Chapter 3: Flock
5Chapter 4: Aftershocks
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6Chapter 5: Pronounced Like Grapple
7Chapter 6: Lesson/Plan
8Chapter 7: Above the Fold
9Chapter 8: Tropical Depression
10Chapter 9: Apples
11Chapter 10: Crossover Scenes
12Chapter 11: Cape Fear
13Chapter 12: The Widder Douglas
14Chapter 12: The Drilled and the Notched
15Chapter 14: Fast Friends
16Chapter 15: Stargazing Through a Veil
17Chapter 16: Inventory
18Chapter 17: Jarod Is a Lot of Things
19Chapter 18: Jarod Is a Lot of Other Things
20Chapter 19: New Fault Lines
21Chapter 20: Hell
22Chapter 21: Daisy and Oscar
23Chapter 22: Short and Sweet
24Chapter 23: Curating Myself
25Chapter 24: Marjorie's Reveal
26Epilogue: Everything Okay
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