Take Me with You by Steven Rowley

Some love stories sneak up on you. This one will linger long after you’ve turned the last page.

From Steven Rowley, the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, comes a tale that’s poignant, hilarious, and unlike anything you’ve read before.

Picture this. College professor Jesse del Ruth watches his husband of thirty years climb out of bed one night, step into their Joshua Tree backyard, walk into a strange beam of light, and… disappear. Just like that. Gone.

How could Norman leave after a lifetime together? Where did he go? And will he ever come back?

What follows is Jesse’s reckoning with a life suddenly his own. Alone for the first time in his adult years, he wrestles with the big questions and the small ones. Return to the classroom? Get a dog? Call his estranged mother? When Norman’s sister turns up on the doorstep with an urgent request—and a conspiracy-theorist neighbor and a mysterious stranger enter the picture—Jesse starts to crack under the weight of it all.

With his trademark wit and tender emotional insight, Rowley delivers an epic exploration of the forces that pull two people into the same orbit, and the gravity that threatens to tear them apart. It’s a story about love, loss, and what it truly means to stay.

We can’t recommend this one enough. It’s the kind of book you’ll want to press into a friend’s hands the moment you finish.

Pour a cup of tea, let the sea air drift in, and settle in for a beautiful read.

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