num_pages: 272
description: Its safe to say your relationship is in trouble if the only way you can imagine solving your problems is by borrowing a time machine. In 2006 comic book dealer John Sherkston has decided to break up with his physicist boyfriend Taylor Esgard on the very day Taylor announces hes finally perfected a time machine for the U.S government. John travels back to 1986 where he encounters Junior his younger more innocent self. When Junior starts to flirt John wonders how to reveal his identity: Im you only with less hair and problems you cant imagine. He also meets up with the younger Taylor and this unlikely trio teams up to plot a course around their future relationship troubles prevent Johns sister from making a tragic decision and stop George W. Bush from becoming president. In this wickedly comic cross-country time-bending journey John confronts his ownand the nationsblunders learning that a second chance at changing things for the better also brings new opportunities to screw them up. Through edgy humor time travel and droll one-liners Bob Smith examines family dysfunction suicide New York City and recent American history while effortlessly blending domestic comedy with science fiction. Part acidic political satire part wild comedy and part poignant social scrutiny Remembrance of Things I Forgot is an uproarious adventure filled with sharp observations about our recent past. InSight Out Book Club featured selectionBob Smith named one of Instinct magazines Leading Men 2011Winner Barbara Gittings Literature Award/Stonewall Book Awards American Library AssociationFinalist Over the Rainbow Selection American Library AssociationFinalist Green Carnation Prize international prize for LGBT LiteratureAmazon Top Ten Gay &amp; Lesbian Books of 2011Best Books for General Audiences selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences selected by the Public Library Reviewers 
language: English
title: Remembrance of Things I Forgot
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press