PREORDER: Wild Horse Shit

How do you continue to live your life while the world around you falls apart? Existing as a fellow traveler with Joan Didion’s White Album, Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, and the USA Trilogy of Dos Passos, Adam Gnade's latest work of autofiction documents the summer of 2024 as a time of rising fascism, genocide shown on phone screens, and escalating tension among a divided population. Adventurous, hopeful, and big-hearted, Wild Horse Shit is a prompt toward living truer to the animal within you while your ragged homeland sways on the verge of collapse. 

Praise for Wild Horse Shit ... 

“For all of its sick and sad ways, America is vast and wonderful, and Adam Gnade expresses the heavy pain of loving this beautiful monster with wisdom and  honesty. He shows us how to be brave and funny in the face of fascism and genocide. His is a vision of kindness, friendship, and community forged out of idealism for a better country, a better world. In Wild Horse Shit, you feel how much he loves America and the people in it, despite everything.” -Bart Schaneman, author of The Pot Job 

“Adam’s writing unravels fear, political disgust, and questions of how to keep going in a world where there is immense terror and pain. His writing also offers immense love and camaraderie despite it all. This book is a reminder to treat caring for each other, and enjoying one another’s company, as some of the greatest tasks of life.” -Lora Mathis, author of The Snakes Came Back 

“Mary Oliver suspects that prayer is a type of paying  attention. Simone Weill asserts this: ‘attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.’ Adam Gnade, better than any writer alive, pays attention. In his latest autofiction, Wild Horse Shit, we follow a man who has chosen connection over consumption, and in the  process has chosen a way of moving through the world that requires a sacred observation. Gnade is reverent in his writing: every person he describes (and every sunset too) involves the kind of detail that only love allows. Through adventures in bars and laundromats, backyards and protests, Gnade offers a sort of handbook for fighting alienation, for refusing to tune out by tuning  towards each other. Juxtaposed to genocide and ecocide and AI slop, this wisdom is urgent. In the pulsing  attention at the heartbeat of Gnade’s prose, this book is exactly the prayer we need.” -Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme

“In Wild Horse Shit, Adam Gnade lays out a rich literary  banquet a thousand miles long, as long as a desert highway.” -Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of Wallop