This Day's Death

A novel on the legality of love from the author of City of Night , “one of the few original American writers of the last century” (Gore Vidal, public intellectual and author of I Told You So ).   A man confronts the twin nightmares of death and silent injustice in John Rechy’s third novel. While juggling the care of his ailing mother, a young law student stands trial in Los Angeles on a charge that exposes him to the depths and intricacies of society’s twisted conceptions of justice and pri