Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022--San Antonio
The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain is an adult gay fairy tale. It has been reviewed in major magazines and listed among the best gay books of the year. It is about a man who has worked for the postal service in England for 50 years. As a youth, he and a school mate fell in love, but that was a dangerous thing at that time--illegal with prison sentences and families unwilling to accept a child being that way. The experience was so good for Albert and at the same so bad, that he has lived his life since then mostly as a hermit--taking care of his abusive mother until she died and avoiding contact with others (co-workers, people on his delivery route, etc.) as much as possible. But he has been told he must retire in 3 months as he ages out of the system at 65. It makes him think about how lonely his life has been and to worry about what retirement will mean. He starts making moves for the first time in his life since he was 15 years old to develop friends and to make amends of past mistakes. It's a good book--well written with very sentimental underpinnings. I gave it 4 1/2 stars out of 5.
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