Gomez’ memoir rambles, but affably so TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm SezBookwormSez@yahoo.com High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir by Edgar Gomez; c.
2022, Soft Skull Press; $16.95; 304 pages. Here. Try this. It fits you, but the color isn’t flattering. It’s too long, too short, too tight, too loose.
That’s not your style, so try something else until you find the thing that looks like you. The perfect thing is out there. As in the new book High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez, when something’s right, it’s right.
He was 13 when he figured out that he was a problem to be solved. Edgar Gomez’ mother had left him in her native Nicaragua with his tíos, just for a while, because she had to return to Florida to work.