Morgan recommends... Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler

Morgan says... A wild concept that is expertly crafted and carried. Adler manages to balance grief, sincerity and humour in a story that collides the AIDS crisis with the Ghostbusters. Ultimately, this book is about love, loss and friendship in a catastrophic era. A love letter to 80's New York and the dazzling queer lives who adorned it. Properly brilliant. 

East Village, summer of 1984. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who has the ability to see ghosts, which has been happening more and more frequently as her friends have started dying of what has recently been named AIDS. So, when her best friend Mark dies, she assumes she'll see him again.

There's no way Mark wouldn't give her a chance to say goodbye, would he? But to her disappointment - and increasingly, her concern - Mark doesn't appear. Renata has other problems, too. A mysterious, police-like force has begun ridding their East Village neighbourhood of anything abnormal or inexplicable.

At first, she's sure they're scam artists, but it becomes clear they're actually trapping ghosts. With her band of lovably eccentric pals and lovers, Renata is determined to fight back against the erasure of her friends' memories and the sanitizing of her beloved New York. Both heartbreaking and healing, tragic and triumphant, Waiting on a Friend is a magical retelling of queer history and a celebration of youth and camaraderie.