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.