A requiem for a lost generation of men, this beautiful debut reminds us of the joy of survival.

Beginning with a chance encounter in Paris in 1985, an unnamed narrator embarks on a physical and spiritual sojourn over four decades. From a one-night stand in Paris with the beautiful and enigmatic Louis to a trip to Maussane, where he meets the charming and sophisticated Frank -- with stops in Europe, Iran, and India in between -- the narrator encounters a cast of exiles, fugitives, rebels, and artists. In his radical commitment to finding love, meaning, and a community, his world travels are snapshots of a time and space gone too soon.

At once an epic journey through time and a love story to the narrator's found family, this haunting, lyrical novel in five parts explores questions of grief, statelessness, and memory, and is a meditation on survival in the age of AIDS.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK