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The Nightingales

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by Cassy Lee In a small town in Oregon in 1985, Emil Wilson’s father made a decision to take in a coworker named Jim and his two dogs who had been evicted from their home. The family is told that Jim is dying of cancer, but it soon becomes apparent that he is a gay man dying of AIDS during the early years of the epidemic, when the disease remained poorly understood and was surrounded by fear, stigma, and misinformation. While Wilson’s mother is not pleased about bringing a stranger into their home, his younger sister, seventeen-year-old Lou, approaches Jim… Read More

Guns in the United States – Stories of Trauma

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by Kevin Wolf Content Advisory: this review contains school shootings, mass shootings, gun violence, suicide statistics, and suicide attempts (latter occurring in one or more books reviewed here). The crisis Lifeline number in the U.S. and Canada is 988, in the U.K. it’s 999; and for elsewhere go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines.   According to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2020 – 2022 (most recent year available when report published), “Firearms Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens, and Disproportionately Affect People of Color.” The books reviewed here are about non-war-caused, gun-related trauma and deaths in… Read More