Travis is the first to realize that his first love is his only true one, and he embarks on a cross-country journey, risks his job and enters the great unknown to try to get Craig back. You’ll laugh, you’ll cheer these characters on, you’ll fall in love. Travis and Craig have fallen out of touch, and they both have strong careers and potential suitors. This is a story about two teenage/high school heart-throbs who fall madly in love and then go about their separate ways for college, and then in life. Shifting gears here, Almost Like Being in Love is the kind of novel that will have you feeling all the (good) feels. The book moves forward 20 years later, to 1998. However, after their summer together, they part and set off to different colleges. The two meet on the set of the school's production of Brigadoon, and the unlikely couple began a whirlwind romance. Craig is the school jock, lauded with the school's Victory Cup for athletic achievement. Travis is the school nerd, obsessed with musicals and constantly picked on. The book centers around the relationship between two men, Travis and Craig, who meet and fall in love in 1978, during their senior year of high school. The book won the Lambda Literary Award in 2005. Kluger uses experiences and people from his life as inspiration for his novels. Like his previous novel Last Days of Summer, Almost Like Being in Love is an epistolary novel the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists, with only minor reliance on narrative. Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger.
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