The Disappearance Boy

This author exploded on the LBGT scene with the novel "Ready To Catch Him If He Falls". I loved that book so I was very anxious to explore this new one. Set in the days of traveling theatre acts, there are 3 main characters: The magician who is quite the dandy, his lovely and wise female apprentice, and his polio-damaged behind the scenes jack of all trades. They strive from town to town to find gigs in different opera halls and the like, and it is mostly a hard scrabble life. But our disappearance boy harbors a very deep secret: he wants to fall in love with the Italian bakers son. The magician is not of the highest moral character, the female has the whole thing figured out, and the reader is hoping that the disappearance boy finds his true love. An offbeat book, but never dull.