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Bridge Across the Ocean
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780966533385
Publisher: West Beach Books
Published: Dec 1 2000
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
In 1988, Derek Mayfield should be celebrating the best year of his life.
After years of struggling with his weight, his self-confidence, and his sexuality, the 26-year-old Black gay man has finally begun embracing the person he was meant to be. Then he receives devastating news: he is HIV positive.
Searching for an escape from fear, uncertainty, and the growing AIDS crisis, Derek travels to Cancun, Mexico, for what he hopes will be a brief vacation. Instead, he finds something unexpected.
Rob and Skeeter Velarde are two straight, white teenage brothers spending the summer with their mother in paradise. To them, Derek is everything they admire-cool, athletic, adventurous, and wise beyond his years. Before long, the three become inseparable, spending their days exploring beaches, sailing tropical waters, telling stories, playing sports, and chasing adventure beneath the Mexican sun.
For Derek, it feels like a second chance at the carefree youth he never had.
But friendships built on admiration and innocence can only survive so long without the truth.
As Derek grows closer to the family, he must reveal the secrets he has been carrying: that he is gay, that he is living with HIV, and that his feelings for Rob have become far more complicated than friendship.
When the truth finally emerges, all four lives are changed forever.
Based on a true story, Bridge Across the Ocean is a moving and thought-provoking novel about friendship, race, identity, mentorship, loss, and the search for hope in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Part summer adventure, part coming-of-age story, and part emotional journey of self-discovery, it explores the transformative power of human connection across the boundaries that too often divide us.
A Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Small Press Title.
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