Cinema Love A Novel

Jiaming Tang

eBook - 2024

Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life.” —The New YorkerA staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented ...the Workers’ Cinema: a theater where gay men cruised for love.While classic war films played, Old Second and his countrymen found intimacy in the screening rooms.... more