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My novella, “Haven,” is a picaresque bit of madness set in the 1970s. Haven Tucker is a former Vietnam Army medic, now working as an ER nurse in Boston when he meets and falls for Tadeo, an Argentine dancer on the wrong side of the Dirty War, who’s stranded Stateside with a brand-new baby. Evil forces mass on either side of the pair as they try, with a colorful supporting cast of Leathermen, Black Panthers, rednecks and medical types, to figure out how to be together and stay safe. |
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BEDSIDE MANNER, edited by Jennifer B. and with stories by me, Jane Davitt, and Sean Michael, is a collection of three novellas with medical themes.
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Boston's legendary Ramrod Room has a cameo in "Haven." |
REVIEWS
“Lee Benoit's HAVEN is a must-read,” says Carole at Rainbow Reviews.
Cassandra Gold, author of “Hit By Love,” says: “HAVEN has action, danger, suspense, and a sweet and unexpected romance made all the sweeter by the many obstacles Haven and Tadeo have to face.”
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FUN FACT
Thanks to my stepdad, an Argentine exile, part of my childhood occurred within the sphere of influence of Argentina's Dirty War (though we lived in the United States and were never in direct danger). Naturally, he didn't share the grisly details with me, but that atmosphere of unrelenting threat, that feeling that you might never be safe? That was something I learned to empathize with quite young.
So, when writing HAVEN I didn't need to do a lot of research on the War and its consequences; I refreshed my memory as to the timeline, but that was about it. Instead, I spent much more time combing through old maps and records of the New York subway system for names of lines and stops as they would have been in the late 70s. You'd laugh if I told you how many hours I spent tracking down the 1977 subway fare!
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The 1970s were such an exhilarating time in Gay culture. Post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS, the bar scene flourished. Here's a bar poster from the era. |
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