The Man I Love
Suanne Laqueur
From author Suanne Laqueur comes an astonishing debut novel: a young man's emotional journey to salvage relationships destroyed in the wake of a school shooting.
As a college freshman, Erik Fiskare is drawn to the world of theater but prefers backstage to center stage. The moment he locks eyes with a beautiful, accomplished dancer named Daisy Bianco, his atoms rearrange themselves and he is drawn into a passionate and soulful love story. But when a disturbed friend brings a gun into the theater and opens fire, the story is forever changed.
Spanning fifteen years, The Man I Love explores themes of love and sexuality, trauma--physical and mental--and its long-lasting effects, the burden of unfinished business and the power of reconciliation. Through Erik's experience we reflect on what it means to be a man, a son and a leader. A soul mate, a partner and a lover. What it means to live the truth of who you are and what you feel. What it means to fight for what you love.
"Five stars. Get ready to be wowed, because Suanne Laqueur's novel The Man I Love is something extraordinary. Beautifully written, it touches on topics that are deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche by this point in time and explores them with humility and sensitivity. Erik and Daisy are so perfectly human, so sweet in their love and so flawed and hurt in their pain, that it's hard not to be enthralled by them."
--San Francisco Book Review
"Five stars. A fabulous first novel. Laqueur's story is written so elegantly, so beautifully, and so deliciously... Readers will be grasping this book, begging to know more, until the final page is devoured. What The Man I Love gets right is the grit of it all. This heartfelt love story is transformed into a tale about the power of communication, the toll trauma takes on survivors, the burden of words left unsaid, and connections between people that can last a lifetime... A beautiful, yet heart-rending love story, thanks to Laqueur's emotional rawness and compelling writing."
--Portland Book Review
"Five stars. The Man I Love is an incredible and emotional tale that pulls the reader into the pages and doesn't let up until the end... Laqueur's writing is raw, descriptive, and hypnotic...she puts the reader in a trance. It's not often that a first time author knocks the cover off the ball, but Suanne Laqueur has with her wonderful novel."
--Self-Publisher Review
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