Geography of the Heart, by Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson was the ninth child of Kentucky whiskey distillers. His lover, Larry Rose, was the only child of German Jewish Holocaust survivors.
A gay Love Story, Geography of the Heart is Johnson’s memoir of his brief, life-altering time with Rose.
“Love doesn’t measure itself by a calendar—does a mother love her child less for being young?”
Visiting his lover’s parents after he loses him to AIDS, Johnson realizes holocaust survivors and Southern gays have something in common-- hiding.
Johnson writes lyrically, from California coral trees, to the wandering rivers of France. He fills your head and heart with a tender appreciation for life in the moment.
Narrated by the author.
--Willow Pennell
