The Tin Box (Audible Audio Edition) Kim Fielding KC Kelly Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
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William Lyon's past forced him to become someone he isn't. Conflicted and unable to maintain the charade, he separates from his wife and takes a job as caretaker at a former mental hospital. Jelley's Valley State Insane Asylum was the largest mental hospital in California for well over a century, but it now stands empty. William thinks the decrepit institution is the perfect place to finish his dissertation and wait for his divorce to become final. In town, William meets Colby Anderson, who minds the local store and post office. Unlike William, Colby is cute, upbeat, and flamboyantly out. Although initially put off by Colby's mannerisms, William comes to value their new friendship, and even accepts Colby's offer to ease him into the world of gay sex.
William's self-image begins to change when he discovers a tin box, hidden in an asylum wall since the 1940s. It contains letters secretly written by Bill, a patient who was sent to the asylum for being homosexual. The letters hit close to home, and William comes to care about Bill and his fate. With Colby's help, he hopes the words written 70 years ago will give him courage to be his true self.
The Tin Box (Audible Audio Edition) Kim Fielding KC Kelly Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
I agree with the reviewer who says that this is hard to review. It's a story written by a straight female who - in the context of a fictional romance that resonates for a lot of gay men who try to conform to what's expected of them - sympathetically examines the long and rough road that gay men have travelled over the last 100 years to arrive at a point of dignity and beyond the treachery of "modern" medical science that for years consigned us to asylums and hospitals where almost unspeakable things were done to cure the "disease" of homosexuality. And this is all done in a touching and appropriate way - it's a really wonderful story that any gay man reading this review (and anyone sympathetic to gay and lesbian folk) should grab and devour. It's so much more than the describing blurb might lead you to think. Kudos to Kim Fielding for writing something which - whether she intended to or not - says something really, really important. I've not read any of this author's work before but I'm going to now - it may not the impact of this one but I owe it to her just because she wrote this. Buy this one, folks, and learn a little while you enjoy a great story.Product details
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The Tin Box (Audible Audio Edition) Kim Fielding KC Kelly Dreamspinner Press LLC Books Reviews
This is extraordinary. I expected the great characters and story from this author, but the the ways the abandoned mental institution affect William, and Colby, elevates 'great' to 'brilliant.' I cried all the way through the last part, so, you know, have a box of tissues handy. Totally worth it.
You should be able to tell if the content will be too much for you by reading the description -- but do be shocked that "conversion therapy" is done right now, and get mad about it. It is torture. (This is in William's past.)
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I had this book on my TBR list for months. I love Kim Fielding's work, but this sounded a little bit out of my comfort zone, and I wasn't sure that I could really get into. Was I ever wrong! When I started this book I simply could not put it down. I had that feeling that many of us do that by pausing my reading I was forcing William and Cory to pause in their journeys. What was interesting, was William experiences an element of that when he is reading Bill and Johnny's story.
What really grabbed me in this story were the brilliant characters of William and Cory. The backstory of Bill's letters provides a heartbreaking glimpse into the terrible "treatments" forced on gay men (and lesbians) in the not-so-distant past. This backstory is an extremely effective and powerful part of the story, but it was William and Cory who carried this for me, and who really stuck with me when I was done.
I love it when an author creates two main characters that equally carry the story, and Ms. Fielding definitely did that. At first, it is William who grabbed my attention. Just dealing with his own sexuality, and caught between what he knows as a therapist and what he fears in his gut, William is simultaneously sympathetic and frustrating. I really felt for him because he wants more than the loveless life he has known in the past, and as a reader, I want it for him too. When we meet Cory, he seems delightfully quirky and easy to love, but Ms. Fielding develops him so well too. There is so much more to his character, and that three dimensionality really pushes the story very well.
I felt like I was late to the party on this one, and it was all my fault! I cannot believe I carried this with me on my kindle of months before I truly discovered it. I know I will revisit these guys at another time. The secondary characters were wonderfully written too, and the two stories come together in a wonderful and impactful way.
Highly recommended!
It was a story with a very interesting premise. However, Colby was very shallowly written and there is no way that William's recovery from his repression and history of abuse would have been that quick and clean. The letters and where that went was truly heartbreaking. That saved the novel for me. The ending I found trite and every straight woman who writes M/M seems to feel that being given a child is the only possible happy ending for a gay couple. Being in love and together could not possibly suffice. It has become the ultimate cliche.
William is a grad student working on his dissertation. Almost stereotypically, his field is psychology, working with statistics the drier the better, and he's got plenty of his own problems. He's about as repressed as a man can be having grown up with religious parents who believed homosexuality was a sin that people chose. He had married, but is just going through a divorce and desperately needs a quiet place to stay. His mentors suggest a post as a sort of live-in caretaker at an abandoned insane asylum that just needs someone in residence in order to make sure trespassers or squatters don't damage the property further.
I worried that the story might be just too horrific and grim, considering how people were treated in those old insane asylums. The details were terrible indeed, but it didn't overwhelm the sweet story of William finding himself and falling for Colby. Colby is a local, an out and proud (he just can't be otherwise) young man who helps out his grandparents at the closest general store. At the asylum, William finds letters written by a man who was an inmate many years ago. The letters are sad, but there is an uplifting silver-lining. And the asylum, situated way, way far away from civilization, could have been the setting for a typical horror story, but it wasn't. This was a sweet, and moving, love story.
The elements were all handled well and they all added up to a very, very good read. This book is definitely recommended! I've read a number of very enjoyable m/m books lately, but this was a stand-out.
I agree with the reviewer who says that this is hard to review. It's a story written by a straight female who - in the context of a fictional romance that resonates for a lot of gay men who try to conform to what's expected of them - sympathetically examines the long and rough road that gay men have travelled over the last 100 years to arrive at a point of dignity and beyond the treachery of "modern" medical science that for years consigned us to asylums and hospitals where almost unspeakable things were done to cure the "disease" of homosexuality. And this is all done in a touching and appropriate way - it's a really wonderful story that any gay man reading this review (and anyone sympathetic to gay and lesbian folk) should grab and devour. It's so much more than the describing blurb might lead you to think. Kudos to Kim Fielding for writing something which - whether she intended to or not - says something really, really important. I've not read any of this author's work before but I'm going to now - it may not the impact of this one but I owe it to her just because she wrote this. Buy this one, folks, and learn a little while you enjoy a great story.
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