Name: After Francesco
ISBN: 9781496733511

Brian Malloy

"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over."--

A Haunting Must-Read Perfect for Book Clubs

After Francesco

Lindsey Barnett

Be curious first, judgmental a distant second.

Lamia Hajani

I will preface by sharing that I had no idea there was a prequel to this book so After Francesco was my first experience with the main characters of this book.

After Francesco is a haunting novel about the height of the AIDS epidemic and the manner in which it wiped out the gay male population in the late 80's and early 90's. It was written during the start of a different modern pandemic, which creates a juxtaposition of the way that gay men were treated as lepers and the way we have handled this epidemic. 

This book was emotionally taxing, and it was absolutely necessary. This history has been all but forgotten by so many, but we are missing many of our LGBT elders to this disease. The terror and the grief are so apparent in Malloy's writing. I really enjoyed the book and would recommend to all.

Thanks to NetGalley, Brian Malloy and Kensington Books for an eARC of this book in exchange for my fair and unbiased opinion.

After Francesco A Haunting Must-Read Perfect for Book Clubs

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