Gosh I didn't take that away from your book at all. I thought Sean and Elias's relationship was loving and tender, and I thought that even though in the end Sean had died and Elias was infected, it was still a very hopeful place.
You wrote a book set in a community and a point in time *in* that community and you did it entirely realistically and with a great deal of compassion. I think, as a reader, for me, the respect, lovingness and compassion that you brought to the task is where the "still a very hopeful place" comes from. You didn't imply one was better than the other at all.
I don't think your story is about gay/straight/whatever, at least not for me. I know it's about what you say it's about since you're the author, but for me, as the reader, your book has always been about love and compassion and that's what I've taken from it.
It sits on the shelf with my most favorite books, it is one of the ones I visit as old friends, the ones that never fail to make me feel better. Compassion has a special place.
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Date: 2007-10-22 04:43 pm (UTC)You wrote a book set in a community and a point in time *in* that community and you did it entirely realistically and with a great deal of compassion. I think, as a reader, for me, the respect, lovingness and compassion that you brought to the task is where the "still a very hopeful place" comes from. You didn't imply one was better than the other at all.
I don't think your story is about gay/straight/whatever, at least not for me. I know it's about what you say it's about since you're the author, but for me, as the reader, your book has always been about love and compassion and that's what I've taken from it.
It sits on the shelf with my most favorite books, it is one of the ones I visit as old friends, the ones that never fail to make me feel better. Compassion has a special place.