Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens

A heartrending novel about two gay teens coming of age in New York - perfect for fans of It's a Sin and Adam Silvera.<BR><BR>It's 1990 in New York City.<BR><BR>Adam is falling in love for the first time. Ben is leaving home for the last.<BR><BR>Drawn by the city's irresistible energy, the boys are swept up into the queer scene, where the potential for life and love seems limitless.<BR><BR>But as the shadows of prejudice gather, Ben and Adam discover how their newfound community is facing the looming threat of AIDS, which will touch their lives more closely than they ever could have imagined. <BR><BR>Heartbreaking yet hopeful, When You Call My Name tells the story of the moments that break our hearts and the people who make us whole - and shows how together we burn brightest in times of darkness.

"Deeply moving and thoroughly engrossing." -Kirkus, starred review<BR><BR>In this fresh, speculative blend of queer romance and coming-of-age, Eddie meets Theo in present-day New York and Francis in a New York of the past... torn between eras and his heart, he must make a decision that will change his life forever.<BR><BR>High school has just ended and Eddie is at a loss for what's next. He had a falling out with his best friend, and he never really related to the rest of his peers in the sleepy Colorado town he calls home. The future is bleak.<BR><BR>Until his ancient and eccentric great aunt Cookie asks him to care for her in New York City as she recuperates from an illness. Eddie leaps at the opportunity. Soon after he arrives at her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, homebound Cookie asks Eddie to use her vintage polaroid camera to snap pictures of her favorite places she can no longer visit. But something's unusual about this camera. When he takes a photo, he's launched back in time to an entirely different New York of the early 20th century.<BR><BR>As Eddie explores the underground queer life of the 1930s, he discovers new undercurrents of his own identity. Not to mention a dangerously handsome boy in scuffed boots and tattered stovepipe trousers who keeps popping up in his visions of the past. <BR><BR>But when Eddie begins to develop a crush on the mercurial Francis, a cute baker named Theo enters the picture-and he's in the present. Caught between timelines and feelings, Eddie must make a decision about what he's willing to chase: his romantic fantasies of the past or a reality that might just be what he's wanted all along.