This African American gay love story set in Brooklyn's hip hop community is a "sexy, romantic soaper . . . sure to please present fans and garner more" ( Booklist). In this final chapter in James Earl Hardy's groundbreaking B-Boy Blues series, Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford and Raheim "Pooquie" Rivers are all grown up. Mitchell is a stay-at-home dad renovating his dream house, writing, and raising his godson and half-sister in Brooklyn's up-and-coming Fort Greene neighborhood. He's fairly happy, but he can't help feeling that something—or someone—is missing from his life. Fresh from rehab for a gambling addiction, Raheim has a new lease on life, but it's precarious — his career as an actor has stalled, he hasn't seen his son in years, and the short-lived sexual trysts that punctuated his life no longer satisfy him. Hell-bent on change, Raheim has finally figured out who he wants to be with forever. But will Mitchell give Raheim the second chance he so desperately wants? " A House Is Not A Home is so good you won't want it?or the series?to end." —E. Lynn Harris, New York Times best-selling author of What Becomes of the Brokenhearted "I have been a fan of his work from his very first novel." —J.L. King, New York Times bestselling author of On the Down Low

ジェームズ・アール・ハーディは、ヒップホップ文化とクィアな自認を鮮烈に交差させ、男性の繊細な内面を独自の文体で描き切りました。本作は単なる恋愛小説の枠を超え、傷ついた魂が真の「居場所」を再構築する過程を追う、再生の叙事詩です。都会の喧騒と内省的な静寂が織りなすコントラストは、読者の心に深く突き刺さります。 ミッチェルとラハイムが過去の依存を乗り越え、再び手を取り合う姿には崇高な人間愛が宿っています。箱としての家ではなく、魂が安らぐ「家庭」を築くための葛藤は、時代を超えた普遍的な感動を呼び起こします。シリーズの幕引きにふさわしい、情熱と慈愛に満ちた文学的到達点と言えるでしょう。