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Bloomsbury Publishing

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ISBN10: 1632863405
ISBN13: 9781632863409

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272 Pages

$18.00

CA$24.00

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Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's taxidermy shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love—a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they make a home for themselves on the outskirts of town, a string of beloved dogs for company. Wendell cooks, Frank cares for the yard, and together they enjoy the vicarious drama of courtroom TV.

But when Wendell finds Frank lying outside among their tomatoes at the age of eighty-three, he feels a new threat to their careful self-reliance. As Frank's physical strength and his memory deteriorate, the two of them must fully confront the sacrifices they've made for each other-and the impending loss of the life they've built.

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Praise for Hide

"Graceful . . . A portrait of a particularly repressive period in gay history."The New York Times Book Review

"Hide can't be reduced to a social-justice tale, or one of love between gay men. It's a story about the kind of love that endures beyond youth, strength and memory. It's about the preciousness of the lives couples build together and the heartbreak of losing them."Chapter 16.org/Knoxville News-Sentinel

"Both beautiful and painful, Hide is a wonderful first novel. Full of humor and tragedy, the book reveals the sacrifices that people are often willing to make to keep their love, even if they must hide it from the world."Gay and Lesbian Review

"Griffin creates a fascinating and raw journey for Frank and Wendell, championing the love between two people, regardless of the lack of support from the outside world."The Scotland Herald

"A searing portrait of love and alienation in old age."Next Magazine

"[Hide] vividly renders both the challenges that confronted the closeted men and women of the past and the tragic realities facing those same people, the elderly and infirm of today."Edge Media Network

"Reading Hide, I kept saying to myself, 'At last!': a novel that follows the trajectory of a marriage (in fact if not in name) between two men over the course of decades, and does so with grit, humor, and compassion. Hide is a welcome and important work."—David Leavitt, author of The Two Hotel Francforts

"Tender, restrained, Hide is the freshly imagined story of a gay male couple who decide to give up the world—friends, family, career—in order to live out their forbidden love in the decades before gay liberation. This is a great love story."—Edmund White, author of Our Young Man

"A compassionate portrait of a lifelong love that will linger with readers."Publishers Weekly