{"id":1095,"date":"2012-07-15T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:02:22","slug":"accidents-never-happen-or-do-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/accidents-never-happen-or-do-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidents Never Happen \u2026 Or Do They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1096\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" alt=\"Cover of Accidents Never Happen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture4-208x300.png\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture4-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Picture4.png 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/659768637\">Barnes, David-Matthew. Accidents Never Happen \u2026 Or Do They?\u00a0Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Paperback. 234p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-235-1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the author of Mesmerized, Accidents Never Happen \u2026 Or Do They? tells the story of 39-year-old Albert, a Puerto Rican amateur cruiserweight living in Chicago and married to a woman who can\u2019t stand him.<\/p>\n<p>By chance, Albert literally runs into Joey, a college sophomore who caused the death of his parents by bleeding the brakes of their car.\u00a0 This chance encounter leads to a chain reaction of murder and tragedy, love and adventure, mystery and romance, coming to terms with one\u2019s sexuality, and learning the truth about oneself and one\u2019s dysfunctional family.<\/p>\n<p>Using flashbacks, changing times and voices throughout the book, the reader learns the backstories of the two main characters, and how others helped shape who these two men have become.\u00a0 Minimal sexual descriptions are interspersed throughout this attention-grabbing storyline, but not enough to cause one to keep the book out of the regular adult section of a library\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: s.n.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes, David-Matthew. Accidents Never Happen \u2026 Or Do They?\u00a0Bold Strokes Books, 2011. Paperback. 234p. $16.95. 978-1-60282-235-1. By the author of Mesmerized, Accidents Never Happen \u2026 Or Do They? tells the story of 39-year-old Albert, a Puerto Rican amateur cruiserweight living in Chicago and married to a woman who can\u2019t stand him. By chance, Albert literally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}