The Artist Cafe

Please join author with local roots Gerard Cabrera present and discuss his debut novel, Homo Novus, set in Springfield. Hosted by Lorilee Cabrera-Donovan. Piety, compassion, lust, love… Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as…