{"product_id":"unrequited-a-gay-memoir-9798995265818","title":"Unrequited: A Gay Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jonathan Lindstrom\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Morcroft Fields Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Morcroft Fields Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove still pulses in the dark. A muscled heart beats stronger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnrequited: A Gay Memoir\u003c\/b\u003e is a coming-of-age story set in 1980s New England, about growing up on the working-class edge of an upper-class town. It's about growing up inside your head, noticing everything, feeling intensely, and discovering that neither quality makes adolescence any easier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrator is an earnest boy whose inner life runs several drafts ahead of his outward one. He thinks harder instead of acting faster, which turns out to be exactly the wrong approach when everyone else is being loud, performing confidence, and pretending not to care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is less about coming out or finding a community. It's narrower and more inconvenient. The book follows a homoromantic sensibility that shows up as fascination rather than hunger: intense, specific attachments to other boys that are emotional long before they're sexual. One person at a time. Immune to whoever else is available. No interest in sexual shortcuts or playing games in some one else's code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you get is a darkly funny portrait of near-misses: staying loyal to ambiguity, feeling in excess of the facts, trying to explain a complicated inner world to people who prefer things simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnrequited\u003c\/b\u003e treats longing as material-sometimes painful, often absurd, occasionally dignified. It's about misplaced devotion, emotional precision, and wanting something specific in a world optimized for different desires.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morcroft Fields Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891719717015,"sku":"9798995265818","price":1537.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798995265818.webp?v=1781184598","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unrequited-a-gay-memoir-9798995265818","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}