"I\'m a connoisseur of the unwanted; a Sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved.
Buddy and Terrance strike up an unlikely friendship that drives Yetto\'s surreal, tawdry, and poignant debut novel..
Enter Terrance: a tall, impossibly handsome black man, a lapsed Broadway performer, virtuoso singer, and banjo player.
So it goes, until a new nurse arrives to care for Buddy\'s grandfather.
There\'s a love interest, a librarian, who tempts Buddy with desires for the "normal" kind of love he knows he cannot have.
There are frequent outrageous acts of casual sex.
Buddy is at war with his neighbor over a stolen book.
At night, Buddy slips away for covert liaisons with women he meets on the internet.
They luxuriate over gourmet meals and perform dramatic readings.
Their life is a working-class hallucination of blueblood extravagance.
The grandfather is a one-eyed double amputee, who spends his days happily dangling in a hydraulic patient lift.
The mother is Emily Post with a color changing and a mood-indicating scar.
He lives with his mother and ailing grandfather in a decaying, post-industrial city.
In darkness, no shadow remains, and it\'s all diamonds." Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be Don Juan trapped in Quasimodo\'s body.
I am forever chased by the shadow of my ugliness. "I\'m a connoisseur of the unwanted; a Sommelier of deformity; a coveter of the unloved
