\ud83c\udfc6 2023 BIBA\u00ae LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner!<\/p>\n
Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he\u2019s carefully curated over the years\u2015a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children\u2015is about to come crashing down around him.<\/p>\n
Columbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus, a fearless young artist, that he couldn\u2019t stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian\u2019s fianc\u00e9e would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him, even if exposure means losing everything.<\/p>\n
For Danny Duffy, an Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and a diverse group of friends, the raid is a galvanizing, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn\u2019t have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper, he\u2019ll be fired from his job at Sloan\u2019s Supermarket, where he\u2019s risen to assistant manager of produce, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge.<\/p>\n
The three men find themselves in a police wagon together, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail, a private investigator, Gus\u2019s disappearance, and Danny\u2019s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men <\/span>to its piercing conclusion, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear, love, and shame. The stakes for each are different, but all of them confront a fundamental question: How much happiness is he allowed to have . . . and what share of it will he lay claim to?<\/p>\n Edward Cahill writes fiction and teaches English literature at Fordham University in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83c\udfc6 2023 BIBA\u00ae LGBTQ2 Fiction Winner! Roger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face, the life he\u2019s carefully curated over the years\u2015a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway, a house in Beechmont Woods, his wife and children\u2015is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8031,"template":"","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_4417260021_4417260021":"","facebook_2752729431657742_150450788658353":"","facebook_2752729431657742_17841415386502662":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending"},"class_list":["post-7726","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-2023-winners","product_cat-lgbtq-fiction","product_tag-edward-cahill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/7726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestindiebookaward.com\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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