![]() ![]() But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal-an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. ![]() ![]() A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death. When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever’s compulsively readable debut novel-a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. ![]() I am so ridiculously thankful to Harper Audio for my gifted ALC of this title. GENRE(S): Historical Fiction, LGBT, Abuse/Mental Health, Thriller ![]()
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