Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time Bloomberg and Electric Literature RuPaul and Eric Cervinis Allstora Book Club Pick for June
Thomas Grattan is a master of plotthat rare abilitywhich makes In Tongues a real roller coaster funny sad shocking and finally quite moving Andrew Holleran author of Dancer from the Dance
An amiable zippy novel that also smuggles in a sharp analysis of family class and the intergenerational inheritance of gay men The Washington Post
A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful artworld couple in this steamy novel of selfdiscovery
Its 2001 and twentyfouryearold Gordonhandsome sensitive and eager for directiontakes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because its the only place for a young gay man to go As he begins to settle into the citys punishing rhythm he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites dogs But it isnt until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from himand what hes capable of doing in order to get it for himself
A lush heartquickening novel about family and art sex and class and the terror of selfdiscovery Thomas Grattans In Tongues chronicles Gordons perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and later to Europe and Mexico City As he floats further into Phillip and Nicolas exclusive universe and as lines blur between employee muse lover and mentor Gordons charm manipulation and growing ambition begin to escape his own control in turn threatening to unravel the lives and lies of those around him
Anchored by winsome lyricism glinting intellect and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion further confirming Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthoods joys and devastations
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar Straus and Giroux
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