A Love Like Blood by Victor Yates7/6/2023 The Mandarin High School alumnus said writing the novel was a trying experience. “It’s about him understanding who he is through his relationship with his father, self-identity and his attraction to his next door neighbor.” “While Carsten is gay, it’s not a coming out story it’s more of a coming in story,” Yates said. “A Love Like Blood” debuted in 2015 and follows 17-year old Carsten Tynes, who is half Somali and half Cuban, as his family moves from Chicago to a suburb of Detroit. “I wanted to put those ideas into a reliable and sympathetic character to see how it would force the reader to question “I was surrounded by books and information, and I was always interested in the ideas and intersections of race, religion, sexuality, and how they can disrupt the father/son relationship,” he said. While living in Ann Arbor, Mich., Yates said the idea to write a novel came to him while working at a library. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers June 12 in New York City at the 29 th annual Lambda Literary Awards for his debut novel, “A Love Like Blood.” Jacksonville native Victor Yates will accept the Judith A.
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