When No One's Looking: Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

I had a sweet lazy morning and then headed out with Harold and a map of downtown SLC. I started at the Utah Pride Center and chatted to the fella behind the espresso machine. I spent an hour or so there, with my double decaf americano and the books. Their library now has a copy of When No One's Looking with a note asking readers to spread the word for me. One book at a time!

Sam Weller's Bookstore has a copy. Ask and you shall receive it - perhaps.
264 Main Street, SLC. A great place if you don't know it. Bruce had the hiccups.

Passionate, funny, bittersweet, and most definitely obsessive, When No One’s Looking is a story of love and hate in equal measure, a messy and secret affair that spans six countries and five decades.

Joey is dying, but no one else knows. Joey reluctantly tells Paula, who’s been a close friend since the sixties. They spend snowy days sitting on a cabin deck in Northern New Mexico, teasing and laughing together. The two start planning a Thanksgiving gathering in their small local town of Madrid, New Mexico, to celebrate Joey’s life.

But Joey has two women worth mentioning. Paula is Joey’s dear friend who’s always there, while the other woman is Kat, the on-again/off-again lover for the last fifty years.

A random encounter at a tavern in New Mexico changed Joey’s life drastically, as from that first night with Kat, both were addicted. They share an incredibly erotic, yet jealous relationship, full of passion and then betrayal. Even though they fight constantly, they always end up back together every few years.

They first came together in 1967 in Santa Fe, then again during the Civil war in Guatemala, the start of Glasnost in Russia, the eighties in Spain, and in Britain during the late nineties. Theirs is a love that almost kills.

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Salt Lake City, Utah