"Striking in its bold depictions of both pleasure and paina?|a fresh angle on familiar themes of love and death and manifesting greater insight in its musings about living."-Publishers Weekly "Incredibly rich and densely textureda?|highly recommended."-Library Journal Three men. Two gay, one straight. Two searching for meaning in the face of loss, one searching for the heart of masculinity. What awakens between them will change their lives forever. The narrative-exploring six months in the life of Ray Henriques, a successful Manhattan record producer-unearths a sometimes jolting examination of how loss can awaken dormant desires and postponed dreams. Endings lead to beginnings, appearances do not match reality, and love can harden hearts as surely as it can expand them.