IN TONGUES

Author of NYTBR Editors' Choice The Recent East Thomas Grattan's In Tongues is a coming-of-age novel set in New York City and Europe in the fall of 2001, following a gay 24-year-old Midwesterner as he gets swept up in the charm and desires of a powerful older couple. The novel examines issues of social class and queer desire, the pursuit of religious and physical ecstasy, and the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, both biological and chosen.