It’s 1985, and 17-year-old Earl “Trey” Singleton III hops a Greyhound bus in Indianapolis bound for New York City, leaving behind privilege and a six-figure trust fund.
As Rasheed Newson, whose debut is My Government Means to Kill Me (Flatiron, Aug.), tells me: “I’m Black and I’m gay, and my whole life I heard about civil rights, gay movements, women’s rights, AIDS activism. It took a guy from Indiana to write a definitive novel about New York City during the AIDS crisis.
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