Book review: Sean Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven is a tender, precise coming-of-age tale
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Anglo-Irish poet Sean Hewitt’s debut novel Open, Heaven tackles the theme of first love.
PHOTOS: JONATHAN CAPE, COURTESY OF SEAN HEWITT
Yeow Kai Chai
By Sean Hewitt
Fiction/Jonathan Cape/208 pages/$29.49
First loves are the most delicate feats to pull off – even more so if they are of the queer kind. Timorous and all-consuming, they breathe in the shadow of societal stigma as well as their own personal demons.