There aren’t even many markers of what’s happening in the outside world Jude moves to a loft in SoHo as a young man, but we don’t see the neighborhood change from gritty artists’ enclave to glitzy tourist destination. There isn’t a single significant female character, and for a long novel, there isn’t much plot.
Two of them are gay, one straight and one bisexual.
Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”-deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Lacks pep, sizzle, not to mention good work ethics.įour men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions-as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer-and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
Just one more sardonically-amusing-about-the-men-in-her-life female p.i. Kate also tinkers with an alibi or two, annoying the cops mightily, and ultimately solves the case with a clue from a reporter and some illegal hacking. Whodunit? A sex-spurned Jett? His bimbo secretary of his new gal-pal? His coke-sniffing producer? His ``approved'' biographer, a sensation-seeking tabloid writer? His manager, who's feathering his nest with a cut of tour memorabilia rip-offs? Kate and her computer-whiz partner check out a few databases, while Kate's rock-critic boyfriend Richard fills them in on Jett's personal history. Kate finds her, but then-after six weeks in Jett's mansion-Moira, coshed with a tenor sax, lies dead on the rehearsal studio floor. In a first outing, Kate agrees to hunt for black rock-star Jett's former partner/lyricist/soulmate Moira, who left Jett and took up heroin, prostitution, and lesbianism. McDermid (Open and Shut, Report for Murder) introduces tough- minded Manchester, England, p.i.
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