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A chance meeting with a young American chased away the fear that he would always be alone and brought him the prospect of a new existence. Murder touched Stephen Dobbins when he was a young boy and left him living in a void of aching loneliness. Man*hattan: a fairy tale is a well-written book by a new writer with a bold and interesting point of view. Higgins attention to detail does not bog down the story, rather is used to give insight and emotional heft to the narrators state of mind, and to lift the story above being just another slice of gay urban life rom-com. Higgins strikes out in a different direction, especially in the ‘romantic’ interludes. Anywhere a lesser writer would have inserted a romantic/sexual interlude, Mr.

His emotional vicissitudes steer the story away from the normal romantic paths toward something much more interesting. It is the narrator’s sense of awareness and detail, and gutsy sense of humor that brings this story to life.

They are at once surface-familiar and yet at odds with expectations. Though the story abounds with the Manhattanite stock bitchy gay characters, they are not there just to fill out the life of Michael, the nervous, emotionally uncertain narrator. Man*hattan: a fairy tale by Philip Higgins is not your typical m/m romance. It’s just another New York story of boy meets boy, boy breaks up with boy, boy gets depressed, works in the basement of a funeral home, drinks too much, wakes up in a strange bed, dates a crazy person, and still makes it to brunch in time to tell the tale. Author’s Book Description for Man*hattan: a fairy tale: