As a result of the explosion of the AIDS epidemic, the life and work of Edmund White, who is often considered as the foremost gay author of his generation, have undergone a significant shift. The chapter focuses on Our Paris: Sketches from Memory (1994), a nonfiction White wrote to come to terms with the illness and death of his partner Hubert Sorin, a French illustrator, who coauthored the book while dying of AIDS. The chapter analyzes White’s unusual way of processing the trauma of Sorin’s illness and impending death; that is, by not writing about them. Thus, by almost completely avoiding any mention of Sorin’s ailment, Our Paris turns out to be an idyllic portrayal of White and Sorin’s life in Paris. The chapter argues that White’s book still belongs to the tradition of AIDS literature and shows how White transforms the city of Paris into an emotional and physical shelter. Our Paris can be interpreted as the step that reconciles the two aspects in White’s life and work: his hesitancy on writing about the epidemic and his life in Paris as part of the American tradition of authors who were moving there to pursue a different intellectual life, sometimes running away from a hostile American reality.