Author: Taylor, Robert
Hardcover
St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312284810

Ian McBride, a principle in a prominent repertory company, erected an emotional wall after his lover died of AIDS. But during rehearsals for The Tempest, Jimmy Davidson, the actor playing Ariel, begins to chip away at his walls and after twelve years Ian finds himself once again deeply and happily in love.But during a visit home to Kimberly, Texas, Jimmy is savagely murdered in a bias attack. Wanting revenge and needing the solace and closure he never had after his first lover's death, Ian goes to Kimberly for the trial. Regarded with suspicion and distaste by the town, and by Jimmy's equally bereft family, Ian finds an unlikely ally in Jimmy's grandmother.All We Have is Now is a moving and powerful novel of love and loss, of hate and understanding.