Next to Nothing: Stories | 
Couldn‘t sleep, so picked up a book we‘ve had unread for years. I read the 1st 2 stories and got Manual for Cleaning Women/Last Night at the Lobster vibes. Banner captures the resilience of small town working class gays & the spiritual vacuity of American suburbia.
But lovey moments can take place in empty parking lots. The image that sticks with me is a bat flying in and out of the light from a lamppost outside a Pizza Hut. Bleakly tender.
Reggie You got me at bleakly tender. 2y