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Wow! Gary Goldstein, the author of “Please Come to Boston” has written a memorable, captivating, heartfelt, and emotional novel. The Genres for this novel are Coming of Age Fiction, Gay Fiction, and Friends Fiction. This well-written and well-told story has different time settings. One is 1975, during college life in Boston, and the other is in present time in Boston. I love the author’s description of college life being a time for exploration and experimentation. The author vividly describes the scenery and the dramatic and colorful characters. Can you remember distinctive times and various activities when you went to college?
Nicky is an innocent and naive college student, who wants to fit in. His roomate is somewhat intimidating, and he forms friendships with some of the students that he first meets when he starts college. Nicky becomes friends with Lori and Joe, and the trio of friends begin their adventure. Nicky starts to question his interests, music and sexuality. The college life is full of activties, adventure. party times, and finding oneself. What starts as a friendship between Nicky, Lori and Joe becomes complex and complicated with consequences that last 50 years later.
I appreciate how the author describes the importance of friends, family, loyalty, communication, honesty, love and hope. This is a thought-provoking book showing how the differences in 50 years can can be so different and yet the same. I highly recommend this amazing novel.
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