Anyone’s Ghost by August Thmpson

It took three car crashes to kill Jake.

Theron is there for the first two. The summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, he’s fifteen and anxious, and Jake is seventeen and a natural. Then, six years later in New York City, come those too-short, ecstatic, painful nights that change both their lives forever. The end of the dream, the longing for the dream, and the dream itself, all at once.

Theron isn’t there for the third crash. And still, this story is full of joy and self-discovery.

• The glorious, stupid simplicity of a boyhood joke
• The way a great song can distill a whole universe
• The devastation of insecurity
• The porous, ungraspable line between yourself and the person you love better than yourself

This is a coming-of-age love story that’s electrically alive and beautifully tuned, with a queer romance at its heart. It’s a new release we’re happy to have nestled on our shelves. It’s the kind of book that makes you linger over a sentence, then read it aloud to whoever’s closest.

It’s a perfect fit for readers of LGBTQ+ fiction, literary love stories, and tender, bittersweet tales of first love and lasting longing. Bring it down to the cove, find a bench with a view of the footbridge, and let the sea air turn the pages with you.

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