Letters from the Closet

An honest and poignant look into the deeply intimate yet platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protegee each seeking connection and acceptance as reflected by the decade of letters they exchanged. It s "Tuesdays with Morrie" if Morrie were young and gay and Mitch Albom were a woman. As the years and letters passed between John and Amy, the layers fell off as they explored and unmasked themselves and each other." " A teacher is like a book, John wrote, wasted until he s read. The student has to do that. You ve done that. While going through a period of despair, he wrote, I hope our relationship survives your growing up and my growing down. Every writer needs a room of his own, but for some people, at certain times and in certain circumstances, the best you can do is a closet. From the confines and protection of his closet, John wrote these letters, letters that were read, cherished, and then locked away for decades in Amy s closet. Now they are chronicled and shared for your enrichment. *** A Different Kind of Love Story Timely and relevant, this is a love story of the most contemporary kind. It s a rare and beautiful glimpse into an intimate, but platonic, relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protegee each seeking connection and acceptance. Now the student-turned-author looks back at the decade of letters that preceded her teacher s untimely death. She collects the shards left by their clumsy, sometimes violent, at