Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move
beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did
Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English
professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack, who died
theatrically and calamitously of AIDS. Tom himself slouches
gingerly and precariously into middle age questioning every
certainty he had about himself as a gay man while negotiating the
field of his college classes, populated as they are with guys whose
cocky bravado can't quite compensate for their own confused
masculinity. Tom tries to balance his awkwardly developing
friendships with them. In the process, he begins to find common
ground with these proud young men and, surprisingly, a way to claim
his own place in the world, and in history. A powerfully moving-and
often disarmingly funny-book about loss, character, and sexuality
in the wake of AIDS, What I Did Wrong is a survivor's tale in an
age when all certainties have lost their logic and focus. It is a
romance that embraces its objects from the traumas of toxic
masculinity to the aftermath of catastrophic loss amidst the
enduring allure of New York City in all its manic and heartbreaking
grandeur.
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