Title: The Lost Language of Cranes
First published: July 1994
Description: David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. 

Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with a man. Philip's parents are facing their own crisis: pressure from developers and the loss of their longtime home. But the real threat to this family is Philip's father's own struggle with his latent homosexuality, realized only in his Sunday afternoon visits to gay porn theaters. Philip's admission to his parents and his father's hidden life provoke changes that forever alter the landscape of their worlds
Subjects: Married people, Gay men, Padre e hijo, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Hombres gays, Matrimonios, Ficción, Parent and adult child, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Young men, Closeted gays, Sexual orientation, Real estate development, Homosexuales varones, Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, Gay men, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, American fiction, Homosexuality in literature, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, Married people, fiction, Fiction, general, Amerikaanse letterkunde, Sortir du placard (Homosexualité), Romans, nouvelles, Promotion immobilière, Parents et enfants adultes, Orientation sexuelle, Pères et fils, Homosexuels dans le placard, Jeunes hommes, Homosexuels masculins, LGBTQ novels, LGBTQ coming out
Places: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), New York (State), New York, Manhattan
Time periods: 1980s