Matchmaking and control
Emmett tries to find Harrison a boyfriend while keeping his own relationship boundaries intact.
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L. C. Rosen - Author
This is a queer romantic fiction about a self-assured young man whose matchmaking project unsettles his rules about friendship, sex and love. It combines social observation with relationships shaped by shared communities and personal loss.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a queer romantic fiction about a self-assured young man whose matchmaking project unsettles his rules about friendship, sex and love. It combines social observation with relationships shaped by shared communities and personal loss.
Emmett tries to find Harrison a boyfriend while keeping his own relationship boundaries intact.
The story presents overlapping circles of friends, lovers and potential partners within a queer social world.
Emmett links future relationships with inevitable breakup and loss, against the background of his mother’s death and his father’s grief.
The book includes same-sex romance, a friend-with-benefits arrangement, matchmaking and discussion of relationships.
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