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The Wedding People meets The Celebrants in this hilarious and profound novel about a recently engaged gay man second guessing marriage, and his cousin’s chaotic Texas wedding weekend with old friends and unexpected strangers that will help guide him to the truth, from the beloved author of The Old Place.At 36, Finlay Hightower has attended countless incredible, cringe-worthy, and disastrous wedding celebrations with his best friends. Thei...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny examination of fame in the digital era and what makes our hunger for it equally alluring and embarrassing—from the podcasters behind Who? Weekly“Nothing short of a modern soliloquy on what it means to seek the gaze of the masses. Come for the laughs and incredible cultural deep cuts, stay for the exegesis on how we wound up . . . here.”—Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Famesick

**Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book PrizeOne of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the YearA bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town.**Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few mo...

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding relief in the corner of New York City he can call his own, even as the queer community is still being ravaged by HIV. But wh...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny examination of fame in the digital era and what makes our hunger for it equally alluring and embarrassing—from the podcasters behind Who? Weekly“Nothing short of a modern soliloquy on what it means to seek the gaze of the masses. Come for the laughs and incredible cultural deep cuts, stay for the exegesis on how we wound up . . . here.”—Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Famesick

Set on the west coast of Ireland... in the past.An attractive young man, fresh from the great Ireland v England war, will go to great lengths to win the heart of the woman he loves.And also a fella called Paul Boland invents the skateboard.

The Wedding People meets The Celebrants in this hilarious and profound novel about a recently engaged gay man second guessing marriage, and his cousin’s chaotic Texas wedding weekend with old friends and unexpected strangers that will help guide him to the truth, from the beloved author of The Old Place.At 36, Finlay Hightower has attended countless incredible, cringe-worthy, and disastrous wedding celebrations with his best friends. Thei...

**Winner of the Crook’s Corner Book PrizeOne of Vanity Fair's Best Books of the YearA bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town.**Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first time in nearly four decades, Mary Alice Roth is not getting ready for the first day of school at Billington High. A few mo...

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later.In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his days at a tedious advertising job, finding relief in the corner of New York City he can call his own, even as the queer community is still being ravaged by HIV. But wh...

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK"[Joy] Osmanski’s ear for both sarcasm and sentimentality not only captures but elevates [Mary H.K.] Choi’s balance of mordant wit, emotional depth and bracing storytelling." — The New York Times"A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story." —Rachel Khong, *New York Times* bestselling author of Real Americans

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED A MUST READ BOOK FOR SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, W MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK POST, LITHUB, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE!"A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story."—Rachel Khong, *New York Times* bestselling author of Real Americans"It’s time we recognize Mary H.K. Choi as an auteur."—Michell...

**A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist • Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National“Anyone’s Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testin...