Alibi Bookshop December LGBTQ+ Book Club: Lay Your Sleeping Head by Michael Nava

Wrapping up the last LGBTQ+ Book Club of 2025, please join us to discuss "Lay Your Sleeping Head" by Michael Nava on December 10th at 5:30 pm, hosted by Richard May.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava's singular protagonist, gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Set in the summer of 1981, in a university town 30 miles south of San Francisco. Henry Rios, a gifted and humane lawyer driven to drink to by personal and professional demons, meets Hugh Paris, a charming junkie struggling to stay clean. Hugh tells Rios an improbable tale of long-ago murders in his wealthy family. Rios disbelieves him but the spark between the two men ignites an obsessive affair that ends only when Hugh is discovered with a needle in his arm on the campus of the great university founded by his ancestor. Rios refused to believe Hugh's death was an accident. He begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than the identity of the men who murdered his lover...

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of our best" writers. Lay Your Sleeping Head presents the origin story of a character who, as Garth Greenwell wrote in the New Yorker, is "unlike any other previous protagonist in American noir." A finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary award in gay mystery.

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