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Advance Praise

“This is a story that needs to be told and Tom Glenn is the author to tell it. He is a skilled writer who uses his unique experience to tell a dual love story. One is the story of a straight man caring for a gay man dying of AIDS. There are scenes that will break your heart while they affirm that we humans are capable of profound love. The second love story is between a father and his daughter and the power of forgiveness. Glenn is a writer who can accomplish the greatest task of the art: he will take you to another world and keep you there and, in the end, you will know something and feel something you did not know or feel before you picked up this book. This is a book you will remember. Tom Glenn is a hell of a writer.”

—Larry Matthews, author of the Dave Haggard thriller series and Take a Rifle from a Dead Man

“In No-Accounts, Tom Glenn has created a small village inside a big city. It’s peopled by ordinary folks who find themselves trapped in an era that gives no quarter, closed in with emotions that are always intense and always present. Everyone has to look grievous situations square in the face: how the shallowest selfishness has the direst consequences; how fear cuts to the bone; coping with love in all its variousness; stripping away prejudgments about “the other;” helping a total stranger go to his slow end; accepting one’s own human mistakes and limitations; agonizing from wrongs wrought upon the people one loves and then trying desperately to forgive oneself. These men and women will get to you—you’ll simultaneously condemn them out-of-hand, be utterly in awe of them, and hope you’re fortunate enough to have their courage if you ever have the need. And Glenn does all this without a trace of mawkishness, weaving deep wisdom through the whole. Quite simply, it’s awesome writing. Do yourself a huge favor—read No-Accounts. When you’re finished, you’ll know the human family almost better than your own.”

—Grady Smith, author of Blood Chit

“Tom Glenn’s No-Accounts is a novel of deep and meaningful compassion. Well-crafted prose and page-turning dialogue carry this story, but at the heart of it is sincere benevolence. In a world where charity often comes in quick, tax-deductible credit-card swipes, Tom Glenn reminds readers that reaching out and touching others in a personal way can be one of life’s most enriching experiences.”

—Eric D. Goodman, author of Tracks

“Tom Glenn lived his novel seven times as a volunteer assisting HIV infected men to die. This is fiction taken from life written by a hero who accompanied the terminally ill as far as any mortal could, devoting himself body and soul to their comfort and helping them make their exit with dignity. It is one man’s story of committing unconditionally to another. A love story like no other, it is uplifting and wrenching and rewarding beyond measure.”

—Juris Jurjevics, author of The Trudeau Vector and Red Flags