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'Butterfly Dream' - A Novel

Item Number
115
Estimated Value
Priceless
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$18 USD to Detroit4dean
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5  -  Bid History

Item Description

A fictitious novel based on actual events. I decided I wanted to write a story about a young aware gay boy who just happens to survive the worst life has to offer and still comes out happy and in love at the end.

I wrote this book to both inform the reader if you are straight, and to uplift the reader if you are gay.

I also write this for myself. The story is aspirational, in that it is the way I wish my life had ended. Although I understand that I will probably not realize what I aspire for.

Item Special Note

At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay.  Fire and loathing greet his emerging consciousness and a resourceful child begins to learn survival skills.

Violently forced from their home and a successful business, his family immigrates to Holland but discover that they haven’t traveled far enough.  They realize too late that Hitler’s mania would spread across a continent.  The Nazis wrench the family apart, tossing them into the maw of the holocaust where only survival matters.

Even in places where humanity itself chokes on the ashes of hatred, Banat realizes that he is gay and has fallen in love with another young Jew.  The knowledge shapes his existence as he copes with the relentless horror of his life in a series of ever-more grim and nightmarish places until he finds himself in the hushed and gray world of Auschwitz, where silent screams fill every mind.

But nothing can truly kill the spirit if it is filled with a longing for beauty.  A young man of such sensibilities can forge moments of sublime bliss in whatever setting he encounters, and through a network of Jewish actors, writers, singers and intellectuals he learns that art can shelter his passions and that his very longing is his refuge.

From his earliest memories of Nazi rallies that unleashed teeming hatred, to his redemption in a New York gay club, Banat Frantz lives an entire life before it ever really begins.

Donated By:

David Lara