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D is shaken when his mercurial friend Lamb vanishes just before they're set to move in together. The news of his death three years later shadows him like a ghost. Sifting through Lamb's journals decades later, D uncovers a raw, intimate portrait of a sensitive misfit navigating a world that never understood him. From their first meeting at an elite all-boys school to the chaos of 1990s San Francisco, Lamb's story unfolds in a tangle of tenderness and rebellion, anguish and adventure. Through journal entries, letters, poetry, and stories, Lamb is a coming-of-age in snapshots that captures the dazed spirit of young men searching for belonging in the aftermath of the AIDS crisis. A Tales of the City for Generation X-a dark afterparty of gay awakening both aching and unforgettable.

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""In this era-defining novel, Ford explores more than the mystery of Lamb. It is a love letter to a friend, a community, a youthfulness gone, a sweet song to relationship in all its joy and heartbreak."" -Eleanor Anstruther, author of In Judgement of Others ""Troy Ford's poignant and heartfelt Lamb takes us on a memorable journey of friendship in scenes ranging from exquisite slow-building drama to edge-of-your-seat tension. The novel is cleverly stitched from many pieces: flashback, poetry, letters, and embedded fictions. Despite the emotional rollercoaster, and the puzzle of these interlocking texts, there is a core through line that is purely human, grounded in love and self-discovery in a raw and vulnerable way. Lamb struck me as only rare books do: I found myself haunted equally by its joyous celebrations of identity, and the elusive nature of loss we all carry with us."" -Kathleen Clare Waller, author of An Interpreter in Vienna

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Troy Ford is an author, editor, and the publisher of two prominent newsletters: the writing-focused FORD KNOWS, and Qstack, an LGBTQIA+ Directory, Platform, and Community of newsletter writers and readers. As a creator and advocate, his mission is to give voice to queer people and issues by promoting their visibility through media projects and collaborations, and through his own fiction and essays.Troy's writing explores the joy and pain of queerness through the lens of gay men who struggle in a world that views their lives as other and less than. His themes include love and sex, romance and friendships, community and family, growing up and bullying, substance abuse and self-destructiveness - all with a touch of humor to lighten otherwise difficult topics.A native Californian, he grew up overseas in the Middle East and eventually settled in the San Francisco/Bay Area where he earned a B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. Since 2019, he has lived in Sitges, Spain with his husband and AmStaff Terrier.Find him at www.troyfordauthor.com and his newsletters at www.troyford.substack.com

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