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Amis d’enfance, Gary et Rickey deviennent amants à seize ans : deux adolescents en lutte contre les normes sociales, la réprobation de leurs familles et le machisme du restaurant où ils font leurs armes…

Le début des péripéties culinaires et amoureuses de Rickey et G-man avant Alcool, La Belle Rouge et Soul Kitchen.

Avec une maturité apaisée et sans rien perdre de sa personnalité hors genre, Brite signe un magnifique roman d’initiation et un portrait de sa ville plus intimiste, lumineux et réaliste que jamais.

New Orleans native Brite has a number of horror novels to her credit and is a minor cult figure in goth kid circles (she is also the author of Courtney Love: The Real Story). Her latest novel is a rose-tinted gay coming-of-age story set on the mean streets of New Orleans' rundown Lower Ninth Ward. The son of hardworking blue-collar Catholic parents, 16-year-old Gary Stubbs is growing increasingly troubled by his sexual feelings for John Rickey, his best friend since childhood. Rickey, living with his divorced mom, takes the realization that he himself is gay in stride, but he is afraid his feelings are not reciprocated by Gary... Brite's novel is clumsy feel-good pulp, but its artless sweetness is a welcome respite from more jaded gay genre fiction.

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