![]() ![]() But before he can figure out where to go, he has to decide who he wants to be. When danger closes in-from gangsters, the police, and people he thought were friends-Joe needs to pack up and get lost. ![]() Joe’s exposure to the surface of criminal Chicago pulls him into something darker than he could have imagined. While running his con, Joe finds himself splitting time between Eddie, a handsome flirt on a delivery truck, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the eye-opening queer life around every corner of the big city. ![]() Joe’s cousin sets him up with a hotel job, then proposes a sketchy scheme to make a lot more money fast. In the summer of 1934, Joe Garbe arrives in Chicago with one goal: Earn enough money to get out of debt and save the family farm. From an Edgar Award-winning author, this historical noir novel follows the life-changing summer of sixteen-year-old Joe Garbe as he discovers queer community in 1930s Chicago and gets caught up in the city's crooked underbelly. ![]()
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