NANCYKAY SHAPIRO READS THIS THURSDAY NIGHT AT BROOKLYN READING WORKS WITH STEFANIA AMPITHEATROF (TWO WRITERS I LOVE)!!!!!!

THE OLD STONE HOUSE IN JJ BYRNE PARK FIFTH AVENUE BETWEEN 4th and 5th STREETS. REFRESHMENTS. BOOKS. SIGNING.

LOOK WHAT PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY IS SAYING ABOUT NANCYKAY’S FIRST NOVEL: WHAT LOVE MEANS TO YOU PEOPLE
$23.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-34789-8

With painstakingly detailed, passionate sex scenes balanced by plenty of
insight into its characters’ anguished inner lives, Shapiro’s debut novel
dramatically captures love’s roulette of emotions: the electricity of
possibility, the pull of youth, the weight of loss. Shapiro depicts the
fraught relationship between two New York City men: 42-year-old ad exec Jim
Glaser and 23-year-old pretty-boy and aspiring artist Seth McKenna. Pulled
together by empathy and animal attraction, Jim and Seth must also navigate
undercurrents of pain: Jim still mourns the death of his long-term partner,
Zak, and Seth conceals a troubled smalltown Nebraska background that
includes a fundamentalist Christian mother, an abusive stepfather and a
horrifying teenage experience that has left him emotionally crippled. Afraid
of Jim’s pity, Seth paints a much cheerier picture of his upbringing, and
when his younger sister, Cassie, suddenly shows up in New York, Seth is
terrified she will reveal their history. Bitter that Seth escaped Nebraska
and she didn’t until now, Cassie also struggles with but quickly accepts his
homosexuality. Fate temporarily calls Seth back to Nebraska, and he and Jim
hit a painful low before Shapiro delivers a reassuring if improbable happy
ending. (Mar.)