By Nightfall

by Michael Cunningham

Book, 2010

Publication

Picador (2011), Edition: Reprint, 238 pages

Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2012)
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2011)
Ohioana Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2011)
Green Carnation Prize (Longlist — 2011)
TLA Gaybies (2011: Nominee best fiction)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: Two main characters (cisgender men) have/have had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Problematic Aspects: Given the plot and character backgrounds/histories, this novel contains seriously outrageous bi erasure.

Publisher's Summary: Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He's an art dealer, she's an editor. They live well. They have their troubles—their ebbing passions, their wayward daughter, and certain doubts about their careers—but they feel as though they're happy. Happy enough. Until Rebecca's much younger, look-alike brother, Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, short for the Mistake), comes to visit. And after he arrives, nothing will ever be the same again.

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