Jeremy wrestles both on the mat and with his secrets. He loves winning almost as much as he loves his teammates! He starves himself to make weight, only to lose from weakness. Wrestling has been all he's lived for, but he's failing at this obstacle to suicide until his teammate Paco, who idolizes Jeremy, asks, "Why don't you come stay with me?" Jeremy isn't the first kid Paco's Native family has adopted into their clan; a foster brother, John, comes home from a halfway house to see his "cousins" wrestle. John's recovery depends on rigorous honesty, including the fact that he is gay. Jeremy and John share more than an orientation; they also entrust each other with personal histories of sexual abuse. Broken self-worth meeting drugs and diseases makes for a complicated inheritance of gay culture. “Is this what I hung on for?” Jeremy asks as he discovers the circuitry of the gay underworld on his search for intimacy. Novel VII is the author's favorite of the books available....More >< Less