The Last Fan Letter

Thomas Avery thought desire had passed him by.

At nearly eighty years old, he is a widower, a father, a grandfather, and a man who has only recently spoken aloud the truth he carried for most of his life. After the death of his beloved wife, Eleanor, Thomas finally told his children he was gay, expecting pain, confusion, perhaps even rejection. Instead, they told him what Eleanor had quietly known all along: that love is rarely simple, and silence is not always the same as absence.

Then Henry...