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Set in the gray cities and across the sprawling motorway of 2023 England, \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.” -\u003cstrong\u003eLora Mathis, artist and author of \u003cem\u003eThe Snakes Came Back\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e 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.” -\u003cstrong\u003eBart Schaneman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Pot Job\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the closing pages of \u003cem\u003eYour Friends Will Carry You Home\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.” -\u003cstrong\u003eBecky DiGiglio, photographer, \u003cem\u003eBorn Upside Down\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“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.” -\u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of \u003cem\u003eWallop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Gnade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41887397118070,"sku":"YR-FRN-WLL-CRR","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5662\/4502\/files\/your_friends_1.jpg?v=1736065091"},{"product_id":"i-wish-to-say-lovely-things","title":"I Wish to Say Lovely Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Adam Gnade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Three One G and Bread \u0026amp; Roses Press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 978-1-939899-46-0\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a child born of the bell hooks classic \u003cem\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/em\u003e and Maggie Nelson’s \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e, Adam Gnade’s latest autobiographical novel takes a good, hard look at love in many forms—romantic, platonic, love of place, of chosen family, of destiny and purpose. Structured in large part as a book of lists, \u003cem\u003eI Wish to Say Lovely Things\u003c\/em\u003e is a big-hearted look at what it is to stay loving and gentle in a violent age—a graceful, philosophical, clear-eyed beacon with which to light your path through this painful, exhausting, and tremendously magnificent life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for the writing of Adam Gnade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Lucid, life-affirming prose from an empathetic master.” -\u003cstrong\u003eYannis Philippakis of the band Foals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adam Gnade is the kind of talent who will remind you how necessary it is to stay human, stay empathetic, stay true.” –\u003cstrong\u003eSzilvia Molnar, \u003cem\u003eThe Nursery\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The king of underground fiction. 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Like Proust’s baroque autobiographical fantasies, this is a book rich with details and life. Gnade’s youthful characters sink to hard drugs and deep depression as they navigate life at the end of the last century. They celebrate and they battle with their demons and throughout it all they eat. This is not a food snob’s novel. Instead Gnade writes about the pain and joy of life and the ways that common, everyday food is there with us at each step. This is a book of deli sub sandwiches, endless burritos, eggplant parmesan, the magnificence of good sourdough bread, of box brownies and Nacho Cheese Doritos, rolled tacos and the perfect tortilla. \u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e is a raging, ecstatic, troubled book that shows a world of food and a world of life, each inextricable from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAfter Tonight, Everything Will Be Different\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent novel, an energetic tale of ambition, sorrow, and American hunger. 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Gnade’s California is a place of border clash, of a glimpse of stormy sea from a top coastal hills or rollercoasters, of ratty beach apartments and punk shows. A collaborative release by Three One G and Pioneers Press, this is a story that asks, “What does it mean to hold fast to your dreams, ethics, and beliefs while the whole world tries to tame you?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Locust House\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Though the San Diego hardcore scene of the late ’90s and early 2000s has as many detractors as it does champions, Locust House doesn’t attempt to defend or deride it. Instead, writer Adam Gnade’s most recent work of fiction uses a house party featuring scene favorites (The Locust, The Blood Brothers, De Facto) as a way to explore the lives of the people who crammed themselves into a sweaty house together. In under 80 pages Locust House deals in sharp, affecting portraits of hopeless kids using spastic noise-punk as a bonding agent. It explains what brought these characters to the same show, and how those radical ideas either stuck with them as they aged or became a distant memory. Gnade doesn’t exalt either side; instead he uses Locust House as a way of exploring the myriad ways people can grow together or grow apart after being steeped in a subculture. In many ways, Locust House ends up functioning like a song by one of the aforementioned bands: short, chaotic, and hyper-resonant. That is, if you’re willing to look for the beauty hidden beneath the racket.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Anthony, \u003cem\u003eAV Club\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Honestly, I’m at a complete loss for words. This single book blew me away hardcore. My friend, Rebecca, was the one to first show me the work of Adam Gnade and I was totally shocked. The rawness and the realness of the words I was reading made me squeal at some points while reading, because I don’t think I’ve ever read something quite like this before. I was underlining and tagging this book like crazy and I’m so glad that it exists. Agnes’s story was a hard thing to read, rough times are always hard to read, but it was so great. Frances, James, and Tyler were all so different but so connected in ways I couldn’t even imagine. This view of America and society and community, it’s like all the things I’ve wanted to try to say right on the page in front of me. Although it’s short, it’s not sweet. It’s a look at the reality of relationships, the past, present, future, and world from the point of view of people living it, told through Gnade. Adam, you rock dude. This book is truly LIFE CHANGING.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlague of Books\u003c\/em\u003e blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Locust House is a novella-length rumination on a time, a place, and a culture. It’s an impressionistic love letter to San Diego’s fringe music scene, circa 2002. It is beautiful, unsettling, and immersive. Gnade presents readers with a handful of misfit characters who orbit San Diego's gritty noise-punk milieu and frequent the Locust House—a home-turned-concert venue, rented and operated by the members of The Locust during the early 2000s. Some of these characters know each other, some don’t. However, they’re all drawn to The Locust's extreme, envelope-pushing music. They are propelled by feelings of alienation, deep political convictions, existential angst, and shitty relationships. They desire something raw and extraordinary in a society brimming with flatlining culture and post-9\/11 paranoia. These characters, I should mention, are all secondary to the sights, sounds, smells, and ephemeral feelings that are lyrically detailed in the novella.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeon Grisly\u003c\/em\u003e blog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Gnade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41887397216374,"sku":"LCS-HS","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/5662\/4502\/files\/locust-house.png?v=1735591514"},{"product_id":"the-do-it-yourself-guide-to-fighting-the-big-motherfuckin-sad","title":"NEW PRINTING: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Adam Gnade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Bread \u0026amp; Roses Press\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e60 pages, paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs of January 7, \u003cem\u003eThe Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfucking Sad\u003c\/em\u003e is back in stock! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-described as an \"anti-depression guide\/guide to a freer, more lawless life.\" Gnade's book looks at the root causes of sadness, anxiety, and general malaise\/boredom and offers helpful point-by-point suggestions (in list form) and short essay pep-talks on how to move beyond your demons for a better, smarter, happier life. 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As James says in the book, \"I thought of how sometimes in the midst of survival, life will jerk you away from your home, how it will push you out across the map, away from the people you love, or into the path of others.\" \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End ...\u003c\/em\u003e is about scratching and clawing for a better, safer, more satisfying life, even as the sky comes crashing down.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThis is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adam Gnade's latest is his best yet. From its hollowed-out towns to its jagged coastlines, Gnade's America—full of wanderers and farmers, lovers and killers—is vibrant and melancholy, glowing with hope and burdened by history. It's a beautiful, crumbling empire, and there are few places better to spend one's time.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eErik Henriksen, \u003cem\u003ePortland Mercury\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e is told in memory fragments and conversations. Eloquent, introspective, and charming conversations carry the book, giving you the feeling of camaraderie with the main character, James. This book is beautiful in the way nostalgia takes over your body as you picture enchanting memories, clouded by who you used to be. This book is also filled with an overwhelming sense of hope even in the face of our inevitable fate back into the earth. Adam Gnade has written an endearing and honest coming-of-age story about love and death and the weight of existence.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eRios de la Luz, author of \u003cem\u003eItzá\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adam Gnade saves lives. His books are life preservers, letters from future selves that tell you, it'll be okay, I promise. \u003cem\u003eIn This Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e, Gnade tunnels through spitfire stories of his hometowns, of friends lost in the headlights of trucks, of fever dreams written in missives on the backs of postcards. This is reportage from a hot-headed angel holding on for dear life to the remote islands that sustain him, those echoes of voices inside his gut that relentlessly holler hope over the waves.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJasmine Dreame Wagner, author of \u003cem\u003eOn a Clear Day\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant pep-talk from the bare-knuckle fist fight of life. An encyclopedia of pain colored pretty. Hemingway at a house show. A beautiful scar left from the wound that took years to heal. Lingering thoughts of Shit, I wish I’d written that. And Mexican food.” -\u003cstrong\u003eTanner Ballengee, author of \u003cem\u003eSixty Tattoos I Secretly Gave Myself at Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e thrums with manic energy like an oversized moth beating itself to death against the porch light. It's layered like a pile of old sweaters with dreamlike cadences, could-be-my-own internal monologues, the backroads and byways of America, freaks, weirdos, heartbreak, renewal, rebirth, the ashes of glory, hopelessness, and alienation in equal measure. It's a book about everything and nothing told in a way that feels like free-falling through summer sky, muggy and realistic and surrealistic and I love it and will fight you in its honor until you, Adam Gnade, are dead and I can take all your cool rocks.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJulia Eff, author of \u003cem\u003eDon't Piss Down My Back \u0026amp; Tell Me It's Raining\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gnade's writing has enough heart and soul to last generations.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eMichael J Seidlinger, author of \u003cem\u003eDreams of Being\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e is like having a drunken, late-night conversation with an old friend you haven’t seen for years: freewheeling and wild, tender and warm, funny and a little bit sad, and altogether something you won’t soon forget.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJuliet Escoria, author of \u003cem\u003eJuliet the Maniac\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most remarkable aspects of Gnade's writing is how he's able to juxtapose sentimental, beautiful imagery and striking insight with the often brutal, tragic fate of his characters—sometimes all within the same page. It makes for devastating, memorable prose. \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e exhibits all of this wonderfully; it is undoubtedly his finest novel.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJonas Cannon, author of \u003cem\u003eCheer the Eff Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You never really can go back to anything, and a large part of \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e is about the protagonist, James, grappling with that most Wolfeian of ideas. You can’t go home again, because when you go back to the places you once called home, they’ve changed. This book details all those changes and losses: buildings torn down, neighborhoods gentrified, friends and family dead or just gone missing from your life. There’s a lot of sorrow and heartbreak in this book, a lot of haunt. James gets hurt, hurts others, makes bad decisions; life beats him down and he beats himself up. Interspersed throughout the hardships are quiet moments of beauty and connection. Trading bad puns with your tour-mate while driving cross-country, sharing a meal with an old friend, even drinking alone by a river in the summer dusk—Adam Gnade describes each moment in such lyrical detail it’s like you’re right there. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End...\u003c\/em\u003e is about the ways we carry home with us, and that no matter how many people and places we lose, no matter how many times we get beat down or beat up, there will always be another chance to change our lives. As Jeanette Winterson wrote in \u003cem\u003eWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?\u003c\/em\u003e 'The whole of life is about another chance and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.'\" -\u003cstrong\u003eJessie Lynn McMains, author of \u003cem\u003eWisconsin Death Trip\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a book for those of us who barely made it out of childhood alive. Those of us who survived the slings and arrows of growing up only to be cast into an adult world of equally sharp sticks and stones. We survived and emerged stronger in the scarred places. Adam Gnade knows this rebirth by pain and fire as well as anyone. A poignant piece of writing. Heartbreaking. Powerful. You'll feel buoyed by the resonance.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eBart Schaneman, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Silence is the Noise\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Green and the Gold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A book in which its characters, good-hearted—or not so—are shown tenderness and understanding by their creator. One where a resilient vulnerability motions forward, coat collar pulled tight around the neck, through the unrelenting storm of everyday becoming yourself all over again. If you have lived a life on the fringe, if you find yourself surrounded by people who, like you, aim to carve out their own idea of belonging, then Adam is writing to you.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Mears, Youthmovies, author of \u003cem\u003eKettledrum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adam’s work has this intuitive ability to toss a few pebbles against the windows of your soul and find out if anyone’s home. And it does this long after you’ve put down the book or stopped listening to the song; when you’re alone in your kitchen at night or up before dawn driving a long way to a job you need to keep. \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e is an unsolved mystery textured in a way few stories are. You can run your fingers through its fine sand or huck dense clumps against the seawall. The scars a slick editor might gloss Gnade scavenges, makes time for, makes room for, taping scraps and shells and inside jokes to the pages until something deeper than a scar is revealed. What mystery time makes of the truth. What truths time marks upon us all.”  -\u003cstrong\u003eRich Baiocco, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath in a Rifle Garden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The writing is so scattered; vulnerable remembrances of a capricious life. It feels less like a complete work and more like a masterful collage. Therein lies the beauty—it feels REAL—like our own memories. It feels like life.”  -\u003cstrong\u003eRudy Ramos, chef, Vegicano.com blog, author of \u003cem\u003eVegenaise with a Vengeance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Gnade does it again. Like \u003cem\u003eLocust House\u003c\/em\u003e but more visceral, like \u003cem\u003eThe Do-it-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad\u003c\/em\u003e but with cowboys, like \u003cem\u003eCaveworld\u003c\/em\u003e in a year-long game of Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons on ten hits of acid. His new work is heart-wrenching like a broken spell, but it’s as validating and powerful and exciting as landing your first kick-flip.\"  -\u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of \u003cem\u003eWallop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of Adam's greatest strengths is his knack for sensory descriptions—simultaneously romantic and yet also brutally honest—dragging the reader effortlessly into his world by way of the clearest colors, the most penetrating sounds, the most nostalgic smells. We feel every one of the narrator's triumphs and heartbreaks, both micro and macroscopic. At one point in \u003cem\u003eThis Is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e, narrator James speaks of his fabled, mysterious uncle Ansel's 'way with the language, the sharpness of his descriptions and the rhythm his words made and the way they became music.' He writes, 'It was intimate and evocative. I felt things from it and saw images blossoming up in my mind, rich and vivid and much more lifelike than what happened in the awful, lonely drabness of my own day to day.' Yes, this is from the perspective of the novel's protagonist, but I'll be damned if it isn't the most eloquent, unintentionally self-referential summation of Gnade's own beautiful style, as well.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eBecky DiGiglio, photographer, \u003cem\u003eBorn Upside Down\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThis is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You\u003c\/em\u003e opens on a beach in San Diego long after the crowds have died out for the winter. What's left is a life laid bare-open and honest with personal mythology. One where the minor god we meet at the 6am end of a bender is just another wandering soul with a spare cigarette to share and the face of a friend we knew in high school. Adam Gnade takes us on a tour of familiar haunts with the lingering high of the one dose that almost did us in and the sobering alchemy of a rural tent revival or a basement show where the hometown punks play loudest and last.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eNick Bernal, \u003cem\u003eBurn All Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some people from recent generations live straight lives, they graduate high school, go to college, marriage, kids, mortgage. Some people stumble about, ending up in random places on the United States map looking for adventure, some people never pull it together at all, suicide, drugs, prison. It isn't easy to have to be straight, it isn't to be a wanderer and it isn't easy to never pull together. The book has all these characters of American life, Gnade gives them all equal footing, everyone eats burritos and everyone misses someone, everyone stands alone in grocery store parking lots holding plastic bags wondering where that person they used to know back in the day might be on this Earth. \u003cem\u003eThis is the End of Something\u003c\/em\u003e is a history of the comings and goings of everyone who has ever came and went, which is everyone.\" -\u003cstrong\u003eNoah Cicero, author of \u003cem\u003eBipolar Cowboy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNature Documentary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Adam Gnade cuts through the clutter of late-capitalism’s excess, exposing the raw, pulsing core of American loneliness and heartbreak. 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