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The Spring Before Obergefell

The Spring Before Obergefell

Grossberg, Ben

Paperback

Series: The James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel

General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1496240340
ISBN13: 9781496240347
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award

The James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel, AWP Award Series Winner

It's not easy for anyone to find love, let alone a middle-aged gay man in small-town America. Mike Breck works multiple part-time jobs and bickers constantly with his father, an angry conservative who moved in after Mike's mother died. When he's not working or avoiding his father, Mike burns time on hookup apps, not looking for anything more. Then he meets a local guy, Dave, just as lonely as he is, and starts to think that maybe he doesn't have to be alone. Mike falls hard, and in a moment of intimacy, his pent-up hopes for a relationship rush out, leading him to look more honestly at himself and his future.

Winner of the James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel, Ben Grossberg's The Spring before Obergefell is about real guys who have real problems, yet still manage to find connection. Funny, serious, meditative, and hopeful, The Spring before Obergefell is a romance--but not a fairytale.

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