About EdA moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's LGBTQ+ scene. Bob Glck met Ed Aulerich Sugai in 1970. Ed was an aspiring artist; Bob wanted to write. They were young men in San Francisco at the high tide of sexual liberation and soon, and for eight years, they were lovers, after which they were friends. Ed was an explorer in the realms of sex. He was beautiful, fragile,

and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture

as well as what might possibly be invented entirely whole cloth

Fearless and frank

Pulsing through the narration is the protagonist’s love of music

wrestling over dandyism

From the “most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times)

partly despairing

In this volume comprising 13 essays

Does the light just go out and that's that―the million-year nap

etching themselves into memory

she worked within and combined a broad range of musical genres

author Izumi Suzuki presents an unforgettable portrait of a young woman encountering missteps and miscommunication