Anyone's Ghost
Perfect for fans of Call Me By Your Name and A Little Life
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The gorgeous, devastating must-read queer love story of the summer.
'It should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow'– Crack
IT TOOK THREE CAR CRASHES TO KILL JAKE
The first crash. New Hampshire. Teenagers Theron and Jake meet in the heat of the summer. Jake is everything Theron wants to be – hot, cool, interesting. Drunk in Jake’s van on their last night together, they hurtle off a dirt road at 2am.
The second crash. New York City. Jake and Theron have drifted apart, but when they are reunited in the midst of a hurricane, they are both forever changed.
The third crash. Texas. Driving on a lonely highway, Jake finds the oblivion he has always been chasing in one final collision, and Theron is left to grapple with the ghosts of their past.
August Thompson's debut Anyone's Ghost is
'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times
'Electric' - Vogue
'A beautiful exploration of the all-encompassing nature of friendship, specifically male friendship, and the devastating speed at which grief can derail your life' - Service95
'This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Thompson debuts with the moody and moving chronicle of a complicated friendship between two young men. In the first sentence, the reader learns from Theron, the 30-something narrator, that his friend Jake recently died in a car accident. Theron then rewinds to 2004, when he's 15 and he follows his father from Los Angeles to New Hampshire after his parents split. He gets a job at the local hardware store, where Jake, who's two years older, is the manager. Their meeting is a "sea change" for Theron, who feels a "spike of desire" for Jake as they smoke weed and bond over their love of Metallica. From there, Theron's obsession with Jake propels the nonlinear narrative as it touches down at different points in their timeline—there's heartache when Jake bails on plans to visit him in Los Angeles in 2009, and excitement when they finally reunite in New York City a few years later, where Theron has recently graduated from NYU and is in an on-and-off relationship with his girlfriend. Thompson skillfully captures Theron's vulnerability, especially when the two men finally act on their mutual attraction and later when Theron deals with the impact of Jake's death. This marks Thompson as a writer to watch.
