Your Friends Will Carry You Home

By Adam Gnade

Published by Bread & Roses Publishing and Three One G

Paperback

For fans of autobiographical literary writing in the vein of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson, Adam Gnade’s latest is both a spirited, hard-luck adventure and a clear-eyed look at the power of friendship and community in fraught times. Set in the gray cities and across the sprawling motorway of 2023 England, Your Friends Will Carry You Home shows Gnade’s wayward American protagonist and his English friends looking for bright moments and celebration in the face of an uncertain future. This quick, lyrical road novel is recommended for anyone who feels lost in the modern age and wants more from life for themselves and for those they love most.

Praise for Your Friends Will Carry You Home

“Adam makes the details of life sing. Olive oil on toast, a cat in a window, and even an old hat are imbibed with magic and luck. This is a book of stories, but it is also about the love of storytelling, and the marks that stories leave. It weaves together glimpses of life into a tapestry that is so vivid and bright you can't help but be warmed by it.” -Lora Mathis, artist and author of The Snakes Came Back

“Your Friends Will Carry You Home shows us how to balance the dark parts of being human and making dumb mistakes with the strength of spending time among good friends acting silly and telling bad jokes. Read it and know what it’s like to travel through this messed up world with enough courage to laugh and smile and love the people around you, in spite of everything else.” -Bart Schaneman, author of The Pot Job (forthcoming)

“In the closing pages of Your Friends Will Carry You Home, the narrator muses, “...if you immediately text someone once a thing happens, you lose the power of telling a story when a story should be told. You need to let it come natural.” Adam’s autobiographical fiction always holds onto that powerful storytelling, waiting for just the right moment to share his experiences, told in an easy cadence, infused with thoughtful reflection.” -Becky DiGiglio, photographer, Born Upside Down

“Rich in description and inspiring in its honest vulnerability, Gnade’s newest novel shows that our life is worth little without the community that nurtures and defends us.” -Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of Wallop