Leave Myself Behind: A Coming of Age Novel with Sharp Wit

From the author of The Language of Love and Loss, the 20th anniversary edition of the classic Alex Award-winning, gay coming-of-age novel heralded as The Catcher in the Rye meets Portnoy's Complaint. "Tart-tongued and appealing... In Bart Yates' gripping debut novel, Noah spins a tale that is by turns refreshingly strange and poignantly familiar." --Paul Russell, author of War Against The Animals Noah York is a smart, sarcastic, complicated seventeen-year-old contending with his dreams of being an artist, his psycho-poet mother, fading memories of his dead father, secrets within the walls of his home--and within his heart as he fights his troubling obsession with the enigmatic boy next door... THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK: "Anybody who tells you he doesn't have mixed feelings about his mother is either stupid or a liar." "Sometimes I feel like Michelangelo, chiseling away at all the crap until nothing is left but the exquisite thing in the middle that no one else sees until it