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Washington, D.C. writer Zak Salih s striking literary debut,
Let s Get Back To The Party, chronicles the ongoing reunion of two gay men who were friends throughout childhood yet became estranged by the ebb and flow of adult life.
Sebastian Mote, an art history teacher in northern Virginia, is attending the newly Supreme Court-advocated marriage of two men with his co-worker Dani, who is eager to lift his sagging spirits. Sebastian has been melancholy since his longtime boyfriend Jake abandoned their experiment in domesticity in favor of a marketing job in California and left without much warning or fanfare.
At the wedding, Sebastian spies Oscar Burnham, the buddy from his younger years whose family packed up and left the area abruptly. Their reunion is a study in how much they ve both grown up and how far apart they ve drifted from the scared, burgeoning youth they once were.
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Publisher: Algonquin Books
Genre/category: Literary Fiction / LGBT Fiction
Elevator pitch for the book: Two estranged childhood friends reconnect as adults and struggle to find their place as gay men in a rapidly changing culture and world.
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Jan 29, 2021
Helped by big gains in downloadable audio sales, overall sales of audiobooks posted eight consecutive years of double-digit increases through 2019, according to the Audio Publishers Association’s annual sales survey (conducted by independent research firm InterQ). And 2020 looks like it will have a similarly sunny result. In its monthly StatShot report, the Association of American Publishers said sales of downloadable audio from trade publishers were up 15.2% through the first 11 months of the year over the same period in 2019, offsetting declines in the much smaller physical audio market. Downloadable audio found more of a home at independent bookstores last year, with Libro.fm reporting that the number of units sold through indies in 2020 jumped by 200% over 2019.