Elsie Street
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4.1 • 65 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Boston native Dave Madden has just been fired from a dead-end bartending job in San Francisco. His long-suffering girlfriend helps him get a job at a nearby art museum as a guard. But what Dave finds there will challenge his whole sense of identity. For despite a fling with a college roommate that ended too soon for his liking, he considers himself straight.
When Dave encounters woozy young Aaron Andersen at a museum event—openly gay, with a house of his own in SF's hip Bernal Heights neighborhood—he at first sees the 24-year-old techie as a harmless nerd and offers to drive him home. But Aaron soon has a seductive hold on Dave, and as the men's lives become more intertwined, Dave finds himself falling into an unexpected and passionate relationship, one that will require all his loyalty and commitment, and his faith in love.
Both men are damaged characters, and Dave really wants to be a good influence on Aaron. But as an old flame suddenly re-emerges from Dave's past and new revelations about Aaron's addictive tendencies raise doubts in Dave's mind, can their life together on Elsie Street really work out?
Customer Reviews
Not my kind of story…
Dave and Aaron are an unusual couple, and maybe I just didn’t feel comfortable with their stories. Dave punches his boss to get fired as the book begins. His girlfriend seems to be very open about her part in what is described as an open relationship, but still hurt when Dave admits to a rather sudden attraction to a drunk guy he gave home and kissed. Then, is new boss, who is sleeping with Dave’s girlfriend, threatens Dave for picking up a guy from work… I find this believable, but I simply wasn’t entertained and don’t plan to the sequel.
I’ve never felt like this..:
I’ve never quite had a book leave me like this. Not needing and quite alright leaving it as the end of the story in my mind. What a very complicated story. No one to mad at, simply understanding where everyone come from ( except one very notable abuser of the story who was only mentioned in moments) overall a very real story which is why it’s doesn’t get a 5 as I don’t like real life very much 🤍. But I would like to say I love this book very much in a twisted sort of way.
Elsie street
This book made me feel a lot of things, good things and bad things. But it was so good