The Sleeping Soldier by Aster Glenn Gray
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After sleeping for a century, a Union cavalry lieutenant awakens in 1965 and finds himself utterly bewildered by the modern world. His friendship with a gay college student soon becomes something deeper, but the rules of love and intimacy have changed dramatically in the hundred years between them.
Description
Cavalry lieutenant Russell Krause went to sleep in the nineteenth century. When he wakes a century later, it is 1965, and practically everything around him is bewildering: electric lights, automobiles, escalators, record players, and a society transformed by a hundred years of history.
Fortunately, Russell finds a guide in Caleb O’Connor, a kind-hearted, history-loving college student who knows far more about the modern world than Russell does. Caleb also has a secret he’s desperate to hide: he’s gay, and he’s rapidly falling for the warm-hearted soldier who has become his closest friend.
There’s just one problem. Russell’s understanding of friendship comes from the nineteenth century, when male affection could look very different from what American society in 1965 considers acceptable. Russell thinks nothing of holding hands, sharing a bed, or showing affection toward another man.
Caleb knows better.
As he introduces Russell to the strange new world around them, Caleb also has to explain why the simple gestures Russell considers perfectly natural could expose them both to danger. And while Caleb desperately wishes their friendship could become something more, the social rules of 1965 make that desire complicated at best and dangerous at worst.
Despite the cultural divide separating them, Russell and Caleb grow ever closer. Their bond becomes a tender collision between two eras, forcing them to confront not only the changing meaning of friendship and love, but the question of whether affection can survive when society insists that it must remain hidden.
The Sleeping Soldier is a queer historical romance with a time-travel premise, bringing together a nineteenth-century soldier and a young gay man navigating the very different realities of 1960s America. It’s a story about history, intimacy, changing social customs, and the strange ways love can cross a century.
Content Warning: Period-typical attitudes in general, particularly toward homosexuality.
Book Details
Author: Aster Glenn Gray
Title: The Sleeping Soldier
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9798235422469
ISBN-13: 979-8-2354224-6-9
Setting: 1965 / nineteenth-century America
Language: English
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