"As for me, when I die I'll direct my family to bury me without fanfare.".The rich are different, I thought: condemned to live their lives in public, they go through their paces at the edge of hysteria like show dogs from which every trait has been bred but anxiety."I could tell you but it would completely miss the point." I can't picture what you men do with each other." A moment later she said, "I have never understood homosexuality. I think most people who get to that room go crazy because they're surrounded with missed possibilities and no principle to explain or justify why they made the choices they did." "Every choice closes doors," I said, "and at some point you are left in the little room of yourself.Henry Rios series of novels The Little Death (1986) "Every choice closes doors," I said, "and at some point you are left in the little room of yourself. 3.1 Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994).2 'The Children of Eve' series of novels (historical fiction).
Nava dramatically highlights the racism and homophobia of 1980s America.
He’s assisted by Grant Hancock, an old friend of Hugh’s with whom Henry also gets romantically involved. His investigation includes looking into Hugh’s claims that his paternal grandfather, a retired federal judge, was a murderer and rapist. When Hugh dies of an overdose, Henry believes that his lover was murdered and sets out to prove it. The untrustworthy Hugh is in legal trouble, but the two men fall in love. Soon afterward, he meets Hugh Paris, a gay, drug-addicted scion of a wealthy white family Hugh’s great-great-grandfather founded Linden University. In 1982, Henry, a gay Latino, quits his job as a public defender in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Linden, home to the “great university of the same name,” because he has lost faith in justice. Fans of Nava’s first Henry Rios mystery, 1986’s The Little Death, will welcome this revised, updated version, which includes sexually explicit passages not in the original novel.
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