The Race for Second
<i><span>The Race for Second</span></i><span> is a gay coming of age novel about an intense friendship that develops between two college students - an American studying abroad and a young German man. Told from the first person perspective of the American student, <span>this story relates the hardships of adapting to another culture while</span> exploring the intersecting lines of a relationship that struggles to define itself as somewhere between friends, brothers, and lovers.</span>