When Brothers Kiss

WHEN BROTHERS KISS is the Cain and Abel story revised for the twenty-first century.  Steve and Dave Alexander are brothers, and they are locked in a life
and death struggle for their identities. At the same time they are trying  to understand their repulsion and deep love for each other.
Their mother Aria is Jewish by birth, but she is now a practicing
Lutheran despite her family's long rabbinical lineage. Their father,
Steve Sr., is black, an attorney, and an agnostic. The boys are
allowed to select their own religion. Dave becomes Jewish and Steve
becomes a Christian.

Some kisses are sweet, others are bitter, and some are both... kisses
become a metaphor for their myriad, often troubled, relationships with others. A childhood first kiss between best friends Steve and Joann swiftly leads to unintended consequences. This innocent first kiss pulls them apart, driving Joanne's Mormon mother to forbid her
daughter from interacting with Steve. She moves first her children and then the entire family away. Yet Joann remains throughout their adult lives a flashpoint for the brothers' love and rivalry.
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Both brothers are creative and leave home and begin their separate odysseys; one is a struggling musician; the other a would-be filmmaker. Both brothers have near-death experiences: one loses his desire to live in the secular world; the other has the desire to live his life more intensely. Both brothers have gay experiences: for one it's traumatic, for the other it is nothing to think twice about. . Both brothers have lovers who become pregnant and have abortions. One brother says he can’t remember the girl’s name; the other is haunted to the point of neurosis by the child he’ll never know. 
And in the background, there is always the inner conflict between their repulsion of each other's religious and life choices and their deep love for each other. 
How two brothers experience life and loss, and ultimately resolve the conflicts between them, is the story of “When Brothers Kiss”. 
This is the first book of a three book series.

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