Imprisonment for a crime you didn’t commit gives you time to think…<>
In his forties, Galen Melville, openly gay, emerges from prison in the mid-1990s, exonerated from a crime he did not commit. Galen returns to the idyllic landscape of his hometown and the eccentric Vondel hotel run by his quirky Dutch family. Suddenly he discovers that perhaps the ghost of his beloved uncle is afoot in the bequeathed mansion across the street. He also hooks up with two muscular and beautiful men, Anton, the landscaper, and Brent, the physical therapist, one older and one younger. He also fights to establish his uncle’s mansion as a refuge for gay and lesbian people. This sensually evoked, affirmative, often comic, sometimes sexually graphic novel follows Galen through a slowly evolving pastoral world, made vivid in riveting prose, a world where his mother finds a renewed sense of her poetic vocation. His father finds sobriety, and his older lover discovers his roots and liberation from the closet.