PANELS & other thoughts

  
                       
                                    ISBN 1-4137-3741-2

   To outsiders looking in, the window to the world of AIDS holds remarkable faces of death. To insiders, the window provides a cruel acknowledgment of devastating mirroring images. PANELS is a novel about close friendships between a   few Southern baby boomers. Their most engulfing years began in the early eighties. By 1985, AIDS was no longer the virus just for the 'pretty, preppy white boys.' People of color also began to live with the virus. 

            The pages takes the reader inside the lives of individuals to the moment of their separate demise and/or victory. Each was able to find their own emotional support through the intricately woven threads of loyalty, doubts, and fears. Set during the tumultuous period between the early eighties until 2003, Michal decides to write his memoirs of his close circle of friends. Unfortunately, Cleo has to write the final chapter.

         PANELS is a novel of healing, hatred, fear, loving, spiritual transformation, loyalty, and the gift that last a lifetime- true friendship.