Longlisted for The Center For Fictions 2024 First Novel Prize Named a Best Literary Fiction Book of 2024 by Elle and a Best Book So Far by Vogue
This new novel is a real heartsqueezer Beautiful one of a kind and perfectly titled Matt Berninger The National
Anyones Ghost is about so very many things the pains of growing up friendship and pining drugs sex the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself But more than any of that it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story This book will make you cryJonathan Safran Foer
An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood
It took three car crashes to kill Jake
Theron David Alden is there for the first two the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire when hes fifteen and anxious and Jakes seventeen and a natural then six years later in New York City those tooshort ecstatic painful nights that change both their lives foreverthe end of the dream and the longing for the dream and the dream itself all at once
Theron is not there for the third crash
And yet their story contains so much joy and selfdiscovery the glorious stupid simplicity of a boyhood joke the devastation of insecurity the way a great song can distill a universe the limits of what we can know about each other the mysterious porous ungraspable fault line between yourself and the person you love better than yourself the beautiful toxic elixir of need and hope and want
Brimming with rare radioactive talent August Thompson has written a love story that is electrically alive and exquisitely tuned
In the words of Jonathan Safran Foer This book will make you cry
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