Iowa

Thomas Wolfe may have told us that you can't go home again, but Patrick Moore, in Iowa , has proven to us that you can; it just isn't easy. Moore, a major performance artist in New York and Los Angles, has written a novel that resonates with enough truth and harsh realities to make its honest sentiment stand out like a beacon in a difficult world. Iowa is the story of Wayne, a gay man who after living a fast-lane gay life in New York, must face the past when he goes home for his father's funeral. Moore's compassion and intelligence shows through on every page, and Iowa ends up being a tale not so much of familial reconciliation as gay reaffirmation and discovery. From the author of the critically acclaimed This Every Nigh comes a thoroughly contemporary vision of home and family. Moving from his stifling small town for freedoms of city life, Wayne knows he's actually going farther away than his family could every imagine. And it is only the inevitable return to the Iowa of his youth that brings about a coming of age more complete, more essential than any experience is his life. Because if coming out, finding, and losing love are the most important events in life, going away from home my still be still be the hardest ..