Barely qualifying as a teenager, but streetwise as they come,
By the time Leonard is five years old he and
That is why Mitch, who runs a business from his home next door to the one
Love in the Present Tense is, at heart, the story of the deeply loving relationship that develops between Mitch and Leonard, two guys who manage to cobble together a little family of their own. That’s the “sweetly sentimental” part of the story. But there is much more to their story than that because neither of them is as perfect as they may sound. Leonard grows into a teenager who, because he believes himself destined to die young, has a dangerously self-destructive outlook on life. Mitch shows his own darker side by for more than a decade relishing an affair with the wife of his major client, a man who has treated him almost like a member of the family, even at one point hoping that his daughter and Mitch would become a couple.
Catherine Ryan Hyde tells her story using three distinctive first person narratives:
Rated at: 3.5