Collage

What do you say to a young man who is dying? And if that young man is dying of AIDS and was your lover whom you’ve left one year past, what do you then do? In Ted Wojtasik’s complex novel of gay love, the problem isn’t one of coming out of the closet—it’s one of maturing into responsible love. And Wojtasik superbly mixes the unlikely combinations of Central European history, Admiral Peary’s North Pole Expedition, the artistry of collage, a cross-dressing singer, an upcoming gay playwright thwarted by the national onset of AIDS, and homo-erotic love into just such a life object lesson for his young protagonist, Zee.