by Armistead Maupin

Gabriel’s lover leaves him, and he finds some comfort in a telephone friendship with Pete, a young boy who is dying of AIDS and who has a wrenching story to tell. Then he begins to suspect that all is not what it seems. Is Pete real? Or is he someone else? Gabriel, who is notoriously gullible, tries to sort fantasy from reality as, in the process, his own life continues in all its satisfying turmoil. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.