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Title: A sweet story that surprises you with its emotional depth.
Review: With a panache for the spoken word, Bayard takes us on a journey well worth the trip. A twenty-five word description of the "plot" of this gem would reek of cliche. Yet, it is the fact that this "Fool" is able to take a universal story--who hasn't spotted someone in the briefest of moments whose image won't seem to go away--and make us care enough to not want to put it down that makes it so remarkable. The plain truth is that you like the often exasperating characters that people this novel, and that is no small feat in the cynical world of contemporary fiction, particularly contemporary gay fiction.
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