Dear Brüder: An Unexpected Bromance (The Clay Town Chronicles #1)

"Most people are afraid to love. That's the secret of all the world's problems ... ." - Jesse Knowles

In the late spring of 1990, 34-year-old Garry Mueller has reached an anxious personal nadir. His relationships with women have proved unfulfilling, yet he won't allow himself to act on his attractions to other men due to the toxic, homophobic enculturation he absorbed from his conservative Southern upbringing. Religion and psychotherapy have failed him in his attempts to achieve true heterosexuality, leaving him desperate for a solution. Then, upon joining the cast of a local stage production, he meets Jesse Knowles, a straight man with unique spiritual insights, who teaches him life-changing lessons in how to love himself and others.

This book is a prequel to Favored Son, in which Garry Mueller appears as an older and wiser friend to Gill Yarborough.