Boys' Love

A heartbreaking and hilarious novel about the ' love that dares to speak its name' Boys' Love A, Novel is the sequel to Danton Remoto's first novel, Riverrun, which is a critical and commercial success. This is the second novel in a projected trilogy of works dealing with the lives, losses, and triumphs of a gay man born in the Philippines and educated in the West. Like the first novel, the second is also set in the Philippines, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The protagonist is a young adult, bewildered and excited by the challenges of living as a gay man in societies that are in ferment. The novel is written in several modes of narration-- first-person memoir, reportorial, transcription of a radio interview, and a book review. There is also a speech, a quiz, a questionnaire, flash fiction, and vignettes. They are written with wry humor and stylistic elegance, and the novel moves at a brisk pace. Written with daring and with dash, Boys' Love comes from the pen of ' one of Asia's best writers' .