{"title":"Literary Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"your-friends-will-carry-you-home","title":"Your Friends Will Carry You Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Adam Gnade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Bread \u0026amp; Roses Publishing and Three One G\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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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