On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Format:Paperback A tragedy sent Harley Shepherd

A tragedy sent Harley Shepherd running to the sleepy fishing village of Rockport

from his childhood in East Harlem to his own heartbreaking experiences with HIV/AIDS

After the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own

equal parts Ned Vizzini and Patrick Ness

a wildly entertaining coming-of-age story for the twentysomething set

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Format:Paperback A tragedy sent Harley ShepherdAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity.