Fiction by Steven Rowley
Patrick O'Hara gets temporary custody of his niece and nephew, Maisie and Grant, after their mother, who had been one of his closest friends, has died, and their father, Patrick's brother, goes to rehab. Their dad had apparently encouraged the children to call him "GUP" for "Gay Uncle Patrick," hence the "Guncle" of the title. It's Patrick's task to try to give the kids a fun summer while helping them recover from their mother's death; this is made harder because Patrick himself is still getting over the death of his partner, Joe, several years before.
This was a pretty good story, mostly lighthearted but not exactly laugh-out-loud funny.
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