Love and Other Ruins - Softcover

Tulchinsky, Karen X.

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ISBN 10: 1551925540 ISBN 13: 9781551925547

Publisher: Raincoast Books, Polestar, 2003

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Young lesbian Nomi Rabinovitch begins a long-distance relationship with new love Julie Sakamoto, as her AIDS activist cousin Henry deals with his declining health.

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About the Author:

Karen X. Tulchinsky is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her first book, the collection of stories In Her Nature, won the VanCity Book Prize. Her latest novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, won the 2008 One Book, One Vancouver prize and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

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At last! The sequel to Love Ruins Everything (1998), Tulchinsky's laugh-out-loud novel of Jewish Canadians. Ditzy lesbian Nomi, mourning the loss of the girlfriend who dumped her, is front and center again, along with HIV-positive cousin Henry and beautiful Julie, Nomi's new love interest, unfortunately many miles away, now that Nomi is back in San Francisco. Nomi's affair is experiencing the comic and awful bumps (and, via phone sex, grinds) of long-distance relationships. Henry's health has diminished, and his Jewish Mafia dad, Solly, who has taken up with Henry's mom again, has moved in with Henry and his lover, Roger. Oh, yes, and the story of the century--that the U.S. government developed and disseminated HIV--is about to break with the new millennium. Tulchinsky opts less for guffaws than poignant sighs this time, preferring to focus on character development--and what characters, given Nomi's extended family--and leaving her audience eager for more of Nomi, Henry, and the story of the century. Whitney Scott
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