Books by J L Homan

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People of all generations will relate to these heartfelt short stories and personal essays from J L Homan.

Reverie Alone Will Do

A collection of reflections

This combination of journalistic history, autobiographical archive and vivid portraiture augments the narrative of Homan's previous memoir, (’Out Here in the Stars … a memoir,” ISBN: 9781078766401), and contributes to the collective consciousness of LGBTQIA literature. Confirming for future generations what one "Baby Boomer" experienced (and survived), while both encouraging and comforting other's struggles and personal journeys. Five chapters from the first book plus additional short stories and personal essays, offer insights with which you may or may not agree but which you will find difficult to dismiss.

RAWD contains many examples of effective crossovers between three stylistic modes: Journalistic/sociological; autobiography/history; and portrait/scene. The mix is seamless - the narration is lucid, vivid, and completely effective. The moments where the three elements blend are among the best of the book, which is both fascinating and rewarding.

Using Erikson’s stages of development as a structure gives the collection a sense of unity and becomes the book’s theme at its heart. Erikson not only develop the eight stages, but also eight Existential Questions, one for each step. With the prominence of the word "Reverie" in its title, the collection allows connections and associations to migrate, dreamlike, between narrative layers among the stories and essays of the collection, trying to answers these questions.

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Witty, wise and wonderfully raw, you will find this book’s integrity difficult to match. The irony and absurdities of achieving dreams, growing older and learning to let go presented through the gamut of emotions.

'Out Here In The Stars

A memoir of Love, Loss & Learning to Let Go

One of two gay actors, living throughout an epidemic that ravages their community, surviving as an HIV-negative, monogamous couple on NYC’s Upper West Side, planning their future, has a seizure in the back seat of a cab, is hit with a fatal diagnosis and dies one month before their fifteenth-anniversary.

The arcs of these two people unite: One lost in the post-war struggles of the Midwest, the other on the more Ivy League East Coast; both needing to follow their art, form a circle that gets smaller and tighter, as they struggle unsuccessfully toward inevitable loss.

But in that loss, many positive things are found.

Witty, wise and wonderfully raw, you will find this book’s integrity difficult to match. The irony and absurdities of achieving dreams, growing older and learning to let go presented through the gamut of emotions.

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