Street People - Softcover

Nava, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1945521031 ISBN 13: 9781945521034

Publisher: Korima Press, 2017

Synopsis

Ben Manso drifts through life, working as a rent boy, until a casual encounter with an eight-year-old street kid named Bobby at a convenience store changes everything. When Ben sees Bobby again, the boy is with a man who claims to be Bobby’s father, but Ben suspects the man is a pedophile and the boy his captive. A third encounter draws Ben deeper into Bobby’s drama and forces him to face his own haunted past. After Ben’s well-intentioned plan to rescue Bobby puts the boy in even greater danger, Ben is forced to make a life-changing choice. Street People is the story of lives at the margin, about the throw-away people we see without seeing, and the real meaning of family.

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About the Author

Michael Nava is the six-time Lambda Literary award-winning author of the Henry Rios novels and the historical novel, The City of Palaces (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014). His most recent work, Lay Your Sleeping Head (Kórima Press, 2016), a reimaagining of the frst Henry Rios novel, was hailed as “one of the literary events of the year,” and earned him his tenth Lambda Literary award nomination. You can fnd him on fb.com/MichaelNavaWriter or www.michaelnavawriter.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Korima Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1945521031
• ISBN 13: 9781945521034
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134