“know this debut writer with sweet tones and rare elegance.”
“If you can picture a collaboration between Franz Kafka, Jane Bowles, and Rachel Cusk, you'll have some idea of the strange delights that await you in To: All The Friends I Killed. Joshua Kent Bookman's second work of fiction is about guilt, paranoia, and the search for home and identity. With its complex layers of time, place, and consciousness, the novel packs more into 150 pages than many novels twice its length. It's a memorably original work, full of mystery, madness, and wicked laugh-out-loud humor.”
Stephen McCauley, author of My Ex-Life and The Object of My Affection
“I read To: All The Friends I Killed in a single sitting, and when I finished the last page I felt as if I'd woken from a startling and evocative dream. In less than two hundred pages, Bookman gives one of the most gripping, haunting accounts of guilt and the search for belonging that I can remember reading in a very long time. His prose is razor-sharp, and his eye is unrelenting. This isn't a book to miss.”
Grant Ginder, author of Let's Not Do That Again and The People We Hate at the Wedding
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After the death of his best friend, a young man vanishes from the United States, seeking a fresh start in France. He stumbles upon work at a vineyard, and thinks he has found a way out in a land of ancestral beauty. But he quickly discovers Europe alone can’t solve his problems.
In this coming-of-age novel, we are faced with the life choices of the millennial generation, the postponement of traditional benchmarks in our twenties, and the queer or asexual attitude towards contemporary loneliness.
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