RaveThe Los Angeles Review of BooksThe multiple perspectives create a mosaic of experiences that are sometimes funny, though more often heartbreaking, adding layers of psychological texture as readers witness the same events filtered through different eyes ... this novel deserves a place in the canon of AIDS literature alongside the likes of Larry Kramer and, more recently, Rebecca Makkai ... a novel by a queer author about queer lives, and thus may be overlooked by a wider audience and critics. However, the book is also about more universal themes of family, reconciliation, and survival. It serves as a reminder to the world that our stories matter — that despite all odds, we are still here. It gave me a sense of comfort, of familiarity, of knowing that there’s a place for queer stories like mine. With this novel, Sickels has offered readers the queer homecoming we never had — homecoming as arrival rather than return.
