The Book of Sexual Errors

The Book of Sexual Errors is an original work of autobiographical fiction that explores the story of a young graduate student at Columbia University, Nick, who moves into his homosexual uncle's rent-controlled apartment in the East Village of New York City in the summer of 1999. Nick, who has recently come out to his family, is both fascinated and haunted by the mythic stories he's heard about his uncle's tragic life as a prodigal son and former habitue of New York's legendary nightclubs. At the center of the narrative is the history behind the uncle's collection of Royal Doulton figurines---each was purchased when one of his friends died of AIDS in the 1980's, and there are one hundred and ninety seven of them in his living room---and Nick's struggle to come to terms with what they mean, literally and metaphorically, for his own future in the apartment and in the world beyond it.