Borrowed Time; Love Alone; Becoming a Man

These collected memoirs are considered a cornerstone of AIDS literature, offering a deeply personal and unflinching account of the epidemic's impact on individual lives and relationships. They provide a vital historical record and emotional testament to a specific period in LGBTQ+ history.

"Borrowed Time" specifically chronicles Monette's relationship with his partner Roger Horwitz and Horwitz's eventual death from AIDS, forming the emotional core around which the other memoirs, "Love Alone" (a collection of poems written after Horwitz's death) and "Becoming a Man" (Monette's earlier coming-of-age story), are contextualized.