"It's four in the morning, and our narrator...realizes the date is February 29th, the birthday of the man who was...[his] first love...Ten years earlier, our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power plays initiates a dance of repulsion and attraction"--,Provided by publisher.