Now I'm Here Alex Iantaffi Nate finds the family he's

Nate finds the family he's always longed for--even if he can't risk telling them what he is

Fourteen-year-old Orvil

for the safeties and dangers they silo

world-renowned family recipes to prove that Jean-Pierre is a worthy heir

but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history--a great forgetting

Now I'm Here Alex Iantaffi Nate finds the family he's"It's people like Mama and me, I guess, who like to make the regular happenings in our town like what happened to Joshua and David sound like myth. There are those who doubt the veracity of my words. But I know. I was there." So begins the voice of Eric Gottlund in Jim Provenzano's latest novel, Now I'm Here, as he begins his tale of how two boys discovered, lost, and then found each other again in the small town of Serene, Ohio, in the 1970s and