Title: After the parade
Description: After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth.
Subjects: Outcasts, Mothers and sons, Life change events, Gay men, Autobiographical memory, Dysfunctional families, Social isolation, Fiction, Middle-aged gay men, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, general, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Gay men, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist
Places: San Francisco, California, Morton (Minn.), San Francisco (Calif.)