A Song for Olaf: A Memoir of Sibling Love at the Dawn of the HIV-AIDS Pandemic

A Heartfelt Account of Love and Loss

It's the summer of 1969. And ink on the headlines about the Stonewall Uprising is barely dry when the entire country is mesmerized by a musical revolution rocking Woodstock. Smack dab in the middle of it all is teenage Olaf, about to leave home for his first year at college in upstate New York.

Gay, gorgeous and musically gifted, Olaf is the only son of a close-knit Italian-American family. Ready or not, he will soon find himself surfing major waves of cha...