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    Audiobook9 hours

    Let's Get Back to the Party

    Written by Zak Salih

    Narrated by Michael Crouch and Will Damron

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    About this audiobook

    Set in the year between the 2015 Supreme Court marriage equality ruling and the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, Let’s Get Back to the Party explores the intertwined lives of two gay men named Sebastian Mote and Oscar Burnham: estranged childhood friends who reconnect as adults in Washington, DC.

    Thirty-somethings who came of age after the AIDS crisis but before the current era where they might have had the comfort of an out adolescence, the two have grown into very different men. Sebastian, a straitlaced suburban high school teacher mourning the end of a long-term relationship, finds his orderly lifestyle threatened by the appearance of Arthur Ayer, a gay student so comfortable in his own skin that Sebastian finds himself dangerously obsessed with the teenager. Oscar, furious and defiant in the face of what he sees as the death of queer culture, begins a confusing relationship—is it friendship or something more?—with once-eminent novelist Sean Stokes, known for graphic stories of pre-AIDS hedonism. Alternating chapters from Sebastian and Oscar’s points of view, Let’s Get Back to the Party recounts their mirrored struggles with generational envy, cultural identity, the traumas of history, and, ultimately, each other.

    Editor's Note

    Second chances…

    Following 2015’s marriage equality ruling, newly single Sebastian longs to settle down, all the while envying the youthful freedom that the queer high school students he teaches are experiencing. When he runs into a childhood friend, Oscar, at a wedding, he sees a second chance; Oscar, however, sees settling down as the death of gay culture, and couldn’t be more on a different page. The two men reexamine their shared history and their places in the world as they both find cross-generational friendships that change their lives: Sebastian with one of his students, and Oscar with an aging AIDS icon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorkman Audio
    Release dateFeb 16, 2021
    ISBN9781649040275
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    Let's Get Back to the Party
    Author

    Zak Salih

    Zak Salih lives in Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in Crazyhorse, the Chattahoochee Review, the Millions, the Rumpus, and other publications. This is his first novel.

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