A work of genius Philip HoareOne of the best things Ive read in many many years Hilton AlsBeautifully provocative the most compelling exploration of life death love and resistance that Ive read for a very long time Eimear McBrideA story of loss and grief sex and love and refusing to relinquish dreamsHe said he would understand if it was too much for me that I could leave him that I was young I should be living I said to him I am livingJohnny Grant faces stark life decisions Seeking answers he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field When they met nearly thirty years ago Johnny was 19 Jerry was 45 They fell in love and made a life on their own terms in Jerrys flat 1 Nova Scotia House Johnny is still there today but Jerry is gone and so is the world they knewAs Johnnys mind travels between then and now he begins to remember stories of Jerrys youth of experiments in living of radical philosophies of the many possibilities of love sex and friendship before the AIDS crisis devastated the queer community Slowly he realizes what he must do nextand attempts to restore ways of being that could be lost foreverNova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship a community and an era It is both a love story and a lament bearing witness to the enduring pain of the AIDS pandemic and honouring the joys and creativity of queer life Intimate visionary and profoundly original it marks the debut of a vibrant new voice in contemporary fiction and a writer with a liberating...
