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"A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.

It’s , and twenty-four-year-old Gordon―handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction―takes a bus from Minnesota to Unused York City because it’s the only place for a young gay male to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a occupation walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has disguised from him―and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.

A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to Unused York and, later, to Europe and Mexico Urban area. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola’s exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulation, and growing ambition begin to escape his own manage, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of