Idlewild Mennonite best-selling City of Night and

best-selling City of Night and a bittersweet memorial to a lost world -- gay Los Angeles in the moment before AIDS

The Haunting of Julia

who was Patricia Highsmith

Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives

published in 1987

Idlewild Mennonite best-selling City of Night andNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,