This novel shows the ordeals that AIDS survivors face, and how being HIV positive no longer equals a slow, painful death. In April of 1997, Tristan Broder makes a pilgrimage from San Francisco to the prickly desert and scalped mountains around Tucson, Arizona, the place where he helped bury his partner Joe, who died of AIDS five years before. Guided by a lingering and deep-seated love, he wanders back towards renewal and resurrection, memory and mystery, deadly secrets and dark intentions. There are plenty of people in the desert who still love Tristan as much as they did Joe. There's Maria, Joe's wild sister, now a born-again Christian; her truck-driving husband Earl; Joe's mother with the dog Murphy she found one day abandoned in the desert; and Joe's best friend Mik, a tough-minded Punjabi Muslim whose one vanity is his long silken hair. With open hearts, they join Tristan to help him make a memorial to the memorable man he loved. Yet, despite the fact that they are all bound, like Tristan, by the love for the friend who once lived among them, every one of them is hiding something far darker...
- ISBN10 1560239948
- ISBN13 9781560239949
- Publish Date 1 January 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harrington Park Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 189
- Language English