Trebor Healey
Award-winning novelist Trebor Healey depicts San Francisco in the 1980s and â€™90s in poetic prose that is both ribald and poignant, and a crossing into the American West that is dreamy, mythic, and visionary.,Â Â  Â When troubled twenty-one-year-old Seamus Blake meets the strong and self-possessed Jimmy (just arrived in San Francisco by bicycle from his hometown in Buffalo, New York), he feels his life may finally be taking a turn for the better. But the ensuing romance proves short-lived as Jimmy dies of an AIDS-related illness. The grieving Seamus is obliged to keep a promise to Jimmy: â€œTake me back the way I came.â€,Â Â  Â And so Seamus sets out by bicycle on a picaresque journey with the ashes, hoping to bring them back to Buffalo. He meets truck drivers, waitresses, college kids, farmers, ranchers, Marines, and other travelersâ€”each one giving him a new perspective on his own life and on Jimmyâ€™s death. When he meets and becomes involved with a young Native American man whose mother has recently died, Seamusâ€™s grief and his story become universal and redemptive.
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