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<v Speaker 1>Please Come to Boston Fall this great time. Welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>the WZ book Club. Jordan Rich here latest book from

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<v Speaker 1>Gary Goldstein, an award winning writer of film, television and theater,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's a novel called Please Come to Boston. Memories

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<v Speaker 1>from that song in the seventies come floating back when

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<v Speaker 1>you hear that title. It's set in the mid seventies

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<v Speaker 1>with locales all around Boston that you'll recognize. Our characters

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<v Speaker 1>are in their first semester at Boston University and the

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<v Speaker 1>story is one of relationships between an eighteen year old

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<v Speaker 1>freshman named Nicki, young and inexperienced, getting to know the

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<v Speaker 1>city and upon moving into his dorm, he meets Joe,

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<v Speaker 1>a friendly jock type. Adding to the relationship triumvirate is

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<v Speaker 1>a girl named Laurie. The novel turns out to be

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<v Speaker 1>not only a coming of age story, but a coming

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<v Speaker 1>out story, involving the complexity of bisexual relationships and how

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<v Speaker 1>people's lives evolve over the decades through the AIDS Crisis

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<v Speaker 1>nine to eleven and beyond. Please Come to Boston by

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<v Speaker 1>Gary Goldstein, with Our Fair City being one of the

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<v Speaker 1>lead characters. And that's the book club w B z

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