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The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Prettiest Star about?
A stunning novel about the bonds of family and redemption, shines light on an overlooked part of the AIDs epidemic when men returned to their rural communities to die, by award-winning author Carter Sickels"Sickels’ characters are painfully flawed and wholly, believably human in their failings. This unflinching honesty, conveyed in finely crafted prose, makes for a memorable and unsettling novel. Powerfully affecting and disturbing." - Kirkus ReviewsAt eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape.Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson’s death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family mean when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can
Who reads The Prettiest Star?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Carter Sickels
- Publisher
- Hub City Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781938235832
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (674 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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