Later: My Life At The Edge Of The World

"Later is a deeply affecting memoir recalling life in Provincetown, Mass., at a time when there was no treatment or prevention for AIDS. Paul Lisicky luxuriates in Provincetown’s accessible and public sex, its embrace of queerness, and an atmosphere that allows him to be the man he seeks to be. He courts risk, flirts with unsafe sex – which is to say, flirts with death – but, too, chooses life. Writing with meticulous emotional nuance, Lisicky not only captures his day-to-day but manages to translate lessons from that day-to-day into a manual for living."