Tramps and Vagabonds by Aster Glenn Gray
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Two young men ride the rails through Depression-era America, sharing whatever food, money, trouble, and tenderness they can find along the way. What begins as an adventure becomes something much harder for James to leave behind.
Description
James has been riding the rails since running away from his uncle’s house two years ago. Streetwise, independent, and accustomed to life on the road, he knows how to survive by keeping moving and keeping his expectations low.
Then he meets Timothy.
Timothy has never spent a day on the road, but he’s eager to see the country and willing to take a chance on the adventure. James assumes the angel-faced newcomer will last a few weeks at most. They’ll hop a train or two, see some of America, fool around a little, and eventually Timothy will decide that life on the road isn’t for him.
Instead, Timothy proves to be tougher than he looks. As the two young men travel together, they begin sharing everything they can scrape together: food, money, good times, and the dangers that come with being young, broke, and constantly on the move.
But summer gives way to autumn, and the romance of the open road collides with the brutal reality of a coming winter. James knows Timothy needs to go home before the cold becomes deadly. Keeping him beside him could put Timothy’s life at risk.
Letting him go might break James’s heart.
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and the transient world of railroad travelers and Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Tramps and Vagabonds is a gritty, emotionally intense historical romance about survival, companionship, and two men discovering what it means to depend on each other.
The novel does not romanticize the period’s dangers. Its content includes police brutality, violence, theft, sexual menace, transactional sex, references to child abuse and sexual assault, and period attitudes toward homosexuality. These elements form part of a world in which even the meaning of being considered “queer” could depend upon who was involved and how others perceived the relationship.
For readers looking for historical M/M romance with a rough-edged setting, strong emotional stakes, and plenty of peril along the railroad tracks, Tramps and Vagabonds delivers a journey where getting safely home is only part of the problem.
Book Details
Author: Aster Glenn Gray
Title: Tramps and Vagabonds
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9798235740648
ISBN-13: 979-8-2357406-4-8
Setting: Great Depression-era United States
Language: English
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