"Enter into these pages, if you dare. . . . Michael Ward calls forth the memory of the beauty, the dread, the terror, and the extraordinary ways we cared for one another." ​--Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie Ward chronicles in candid detail his partner Mark's decline and eventual death. By looking back on these devastating events, he not only honors a generation lost to the illness but also opens a vital window onto the past, when HIV/AIDS was usually a death sentence.

Award(s)

Foreward Indies Finalist, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2016, and POZ Magazine "Best Summer Reads"

Book Website

http://www.theseaisquiettonight.com

Contributor(s)

Michael H Ward

Publisher

Querelle Press

ISBN-13

978-0-9967103-3-6

Publication Date

Nov 1, 2016

Pages

204

Price

$19.99

Tags

#autobiographyandmemoir

Our Review

This is a gripping story of a man’s struggle to survive AIDS, and a touching memoir about a relationship that ended too soon. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was still a new and misunderstood threat, Michael Ward’s partner, Mark Halberstadt, contracted the disease. Ward’s memoir The Sea is... Read More