Bøger af Tucker Shaw

Adam es un fanâatico del cine, tiene diecisiete aänos y un chico muy guapo lo acaba de invitar a salir. ÆSu primera cita! Con el corazâon a mil, Adam acepta y se enamora de Callum, como pasa en las pelâiculas. Ben estâa obsesionado con la moda, tiene dieciocho aänos y se ha ido de casa despuâes de que su madre descubriera su colecciâon de revistas gays. Pero, al llegar a Nueva York, Ben empieza a sentir su sexualidad menos como un secreto y mâas como una insignia de honor. Entonces Callum desaparece y deja a Adam con el corazâon roto, y Ben descubre que el mundo que acaba de descubrir no es tan abierto de mente como pensaba. Cuando Adam por fin encuentra a Callum, se entera de que el chico al que ama estâa muy enfermo. Y, en un encuentro casual cerca del hospital donde Callum estâa ingresado, Ben y Adam se conocen. Cuando ambos empiezan a abrirse a las posibilidades del amor y la vida queer, se dan cuenta de que, a veces, las âunicas personas que pueden ayudarnos son las que nos ven tal y como somos, en todo nuestro esplendor, por caâotico que sea.

In the spirit of the author's massively popular Twitter thread, Tucker Shaw's When You Call My Name is a heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York City in 1990 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Mary H. K. Choi.Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and being asked out on his first date-and the guy is cute. Heart racing, Adam accepts, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised.Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When he comes to New York City, Ben's sexuality begins to feel less like a secret and more like a badge of honor.Then Callum disappears, leaving Adam heartbroken, and Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. When Adam finally tracks Callum down, he learns the guy he loves is very ill. And in a chance meeting near the hospital where Callum is being treated, Ben and Adam meet, forever changing each other's lives. As both begin to open their eyes to the possibilities of queer love and life, they realize sometimes the only people who can help you are the people who can really see you-in all your messy glory.A love letter to New York and the liberating power of queer friendship, When You Call My Name is a hopeful novel about the pivotal moments of our youth that break our hearts and the people who help us put them back together.

A heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York - perfect for fans of It's a Sin and Adam Silvera.It's 1990 in New York City.Adam is falling in love for the first time. Ben is leaving home for the last.Drawn by the city's irresistible energy, the boys are swept up into the queer scene, where the potential for life and love seems limitless.But as the shadows of prejudice gather, Ben and Adam discover how their newfound community is facing the looming threat of AIDS, which will touch their lives more closely than they ever could have imagined. Heartbreaking yet hopeful, When You Call My Name tells the story of the moments that break our hearts and the people who make us whole - and shows how together we burn brightest in times of darkness.