Now It's Time to Say Goodbye Prayerbooks and even the end of

and even the end of the world

the thrill of living on her own terms

" --Lily Tomlin "Sexy Liberal

I can't explain myself without making a mess

Bayard Rustin

Now It's Time to Say Goodbye Prayerbooks and even the end ofWhen the 500th person they know dies of AIDS, Colin and Justin flee New York City. They end up in Galatia, a Kansas town founded by freed slaves in the wake of the Civil War whose population is now divided, evenly but uneasily, between African Americans descended from the town's founders and Caucasians who buy up more of the town's land with each passing year. But within weeks of relocating, they are implicated in a harrowing crime, and discover that