By Bart Yates
Secrets and techniques and lies - this can be a searing novel of loss and redemption. Yates explores the explosive, unshakeable bond among brothers and the single summer season that adjustments their lives without end. Tommy and Nathan Bishop are as diversified as brothers should be. Carefree and careless, Tommy is the golden boy who takes males into his mattress with a seductive smile and turns them out simply as fast. nobody can withstand him - and nobody can keep watch over him. Nathan is all approximately keep an eye on. At 31, he's as darkish and intricate as Tommy is mild and simple - and sour past his years. whereas Tommy left for the buzz of recent York urban, Nathan stayed at the back of, educating highschool English of their provincial native land, surrounded through the remainders in their ruined family members background and a legacy of anger that runs via him like a scar. Now, Tommy has come domestic to the family members cottage for the summer time, bringing his risky, sexual powder-keg of an entourage - and the far-off echoes of his family's tumultuous earlier - with him. Tommy and his lover Phil are teetering on the point of catastrophe, whereas their married acquaintances, Camille and Kyle, ideal their steps in a dance of deception, each one associate pulling Nathan deeper into the fray. And whilst considered one of Nathan's scholars starts vacationing the home, a gradual fuse is lit on a hugely flamable mix...
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A lot of people have hangups about touching other people’s skin, but that’s never been a problem with Tommy. He pushes me away for a second, holding my shoulders, and says, “You’re so dark you look like an Indian,” then he hugs me again before finally letting go. He smells like coffee. I finish locking the armoire. ” “They’re outside admiring your rhododendrons. ” “Don’t you dare. ” THE BROTHERS BISHOP 23 He’s always saying shit like that, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like it. Compared to him I look like Quasimodo, but he never seems to notice.
Philip rolls over on his back, still mostly asleep but awake enough to give Tommy better access. I shake my head. ” He grins. ” One of Dad’s favorite jokes was “Know what AIDS means? ” Har har har. What a knee-slapper. He had dozens of similar, ven- 34 Bart Yates omous one-liners; antigay comments flew out his mouth like pissed-off bees, and most of them were said when he was sure his sons could hear him. I’m sure he knew we were gay, and no doubt that’s one of the main reasons he treated us the way he did, but Tommy and I never spoke of it with him.
She gasps at one of them. ” I move forward and she hands it to me. It’s a nineteen seventy-two Chambertin. Dad always went gaga over French wine. I like the stuff but I don’t know much about it. ” She blinks in the beam of the flashlight and checks out another row of bottles. ” I laugh. ” “No, I’m serious. I haven’t seen a single bottle so far that isn’t worth at least fifty or sixty dollars, and you said you have more than a hundred bottles. So that’s what? ” THE BROTHERS BISHOP 43 It’s my turn to blink.
