A book about a NYC girl with a gay best friend?
The book I can't remember was good enough that I want to read other works by this author, but I can't remember the book to figure out who that was.
It takes place in the 1980s but was written in the last 10 -15 years.
A girl in her early 20s lives in NYC. She has a gay best friend who is wealthy, except it turns out he is not wealthy. She does not know this unitl he takes off for CA and then he dies of AIDS. He is also married to a woman at the time. He is not bisexual but married her for money or compansionship. At this point she learns he never grew up wealthy.
Anyway, as I said, he dies of AIDS.
It's NOT The Great Believers, I have read that. It is also not the one about the teenage girl and her dead uncle's gay partner (Wolves...something).
Thank you!