Publisher's Synopsis
"In his forties, Galen Melville, an openly gay man, emerges from prison in the mid-1990s, exonerated from a crime he did not commit. Galen returns to the idyllic landscape, of his Oregon hometown whose center is the eccentric Vondel Hotel run by his quirky Dutch family. Suddenly he discovers that perhaps the ghost of his beloved uncle is afoot in the bequeathed abandoned mansion across the street and perceives mysterious signs of guidance in his search for right relationships with his young son and grown daughter. In the quest to find himself, he hooks up with two muscular and beautiful men, Anton the landscaper and Brent, the physical therapist, one older and one younger. He also fights to establish his uncle's mansion as a refuge for gay and lesbian people. This sensually evoked, affirmative, often comic, sometimes sexually graphic novel follows Galen through a slowly evolving pastoral world, made vivid in riveting prose, a world wher
