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An engrossing, multifaceted story about a group of friends that learn to create a “found family” to help them rise above their hardscrabble lives. As the years pass and life gets in the way—fame, fortune, brushes with the law, death—the friends find their way back to one another in order to make room for an unexpected addition to their ride-or-die group.
As a writer, Backman is an alchemist; he has a way of taking prickly characters (angsty teenagers, grumpy old men, etc.) and transmuting them on the page into someone you look forward to spending time with and grieve to part from when the story ends. My Friends is a touching story of humanity and the power of friendship...with a generous dose of fart jokes thrown in to keep the “human” in humanity front and center.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads •USA TODAY • Marie Claire • BookPage • Literary Lifestyle •Book Riot •Sunset Magazine • Totally Booked with Zibby Owens * A Fallon Book Club Pick
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later.
Most people don't even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of…
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Financial Times
For fans of ELEANOR OLIPHANT, THE ROSIE PROJECT & THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY.
It all began with the whale.
When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers that this is not a regular day. What has brought him here? And what is the crisis only he understands, that threatens not only their community but all…
