Nova Scotia House

A softly inspiring book about lived history and time and, always, love.

I truly think Charlie Porter is doing something new. 

Just extraordinary. To read it is life-changing.

I didn’t want to let this book go. The way it reveals its narrator, and its secrets—the pockets of emotion and memory that we half-hide from ourselves—is astonishing.

Surely the tenderest of AIDS novels . . . It makes the always radical argument that play is more important than work. At heart, it’s a queer manifesto, proclaiming the value of queer experience and soul.

In fresh and vivid prose, Porter takes us right to the heart of a world filled with love, loss, and courage.

This book occupies the spaces, the lives in between, the connections we make, the memories still happening in our heads, our bodies’ responsibility to the state we put them in, growing, lusting, dying, reviving, sold on, the ruins of our lives, the communities of our past, another kind of economy, of sex and loss and weeds and words, this work of genius, Nova Scotia House.

This is going to blow reader’s minds. Intense, physical, true.