A book of personal essays in which author Andrew Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation - the police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate - the essays explore Barnes' relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a conservative family in the Midwest.
A book of personal essays in which author Andrew Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation - the police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate - the essays explore Barnes' relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a conservative family in the Midwest.
A.W. Barnes has a Ph.D. in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. His nonfiction has appeared in Broad Street, The Away Journal, Gertrude Press, and Sheepshead Review. His academic book Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern England was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. He lives in New York City.
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1. A Complaint 2. The Letter 3. Salient Facts 4. Familial Bodies 5. Prospero's Books 6. Holiday Inn 7. Morta Sicura Acknowledgments
