The Tango of the Shipwreck

A Novel

By: Joseph F. Delgado

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

On the night of his mother’s wake, the most grieving survivors are rancor and hypocrisy. After living away for over half a century, Javier Toro, the former Tomás Eduardo Príncipe, attends the viewing and runs into the petty, shallow townspeople he left behind and never missed. In the space of five hours the saddened mourners come to pay their respects and construct an image of the deceased divorced from reality. Meanwhile, Javier braids the present with the recollection of what his life has been far from the town, a journey of professional success, sorrow overcome and the unconditional love of his husband and adopted son, the family he has shaped through an emotional commitment instead of the duplicity and the toxicity of genealogical blood.“This is a novel by a master storyteller for the serious queer reader who seeks a superb story beyond what a Twitter text allows, written with stark honesty and sublime sentivity.” —Miguel Ale, author of The Song of the Captive“Marcel Proust meets Sinclair Lewis.” —Emilio del Carril, Author of En el reino de la Garúa“Innovative narrative style.” —Dr. Paolo Negrete Izaguirre on Lauertos borincanos: El testimonio del Sospechoso