Beye, C: My Husband and My Wives: A Gay Man's Odyssey A Gay Man's Odyssey

LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist Praise for "My Husband and My Wives" "It's Beye's charming raconteur voice, however, and his refusal to bend anecdotes into the expected 'lessons' that really make this memoir such a knockout. Beye won me over in his introduction when he admitted that, looking back at the long span of his life--he's now over 80--the big question he still asks himself is, 'What was that all about?' . . . Beye's story is a complex, poignant addition to the sexual canon. While he seems to have been blessedly free of the standard sexual guilt growing up, he was also acutely aware of the cost of being different . . . Beye's memoir ends on a joyous note. He and his husband of the title have been married for some four years; together for 20. Bowing to his background in ancient Greek, Beye subtitled his memoir 'A Gay Man's Odyssey, ' but he might just as well have availed himself of the affirmative LGBTQ slogan 'It Gets Better.'" --Maureen Corrigan, "NPR""Beye delivers surprising information . . . with a matter-of-factness that puts the complexity of human relationships, not scandal, at the center of the narrative . . . Early in his memoir, Beye tells us that he hopes the reader will finish the book 'with a better understanding of the obstacles and shoals the gay male must navigate just to grow up and assume the responsibilities of adulthood.' In clean, elegant prose, Beye does just that. "My Husband and My Wives" is an engrossing, moving, and often witty take on one gay man's life." --Ken Harvey, " Lambda Literary""This memoir is moving, thoughtful, and witty--an enormous achievement." --Brenda Maddox, author of "Married and Gay: An Intimate Look at a Different Relationship""Philip Larkin wrote, 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three.' Not so for the brilliant and charming Charles Rowan Beye. If only Larkin had been in Iowa City in the 1940s! Who knew there was so much action in high school and the heartland in that era? With a deepo