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We Have Reached the End of Our Show

Ali Gordon

Description

Thanks to an unrelenting cycle of cancer treatments, thirty-two-year-old Gabe is too weak to dance gracefully on stage or through NYC's sparkling social scene like he once did. And although he and Josie have been in love for six years, lately Gabe's been feeling more like Josie's patient than his boyfriend. So, one day, Gabe makes a choice: he'll forgo treatment and live out his remaining days on his own terms.

Then a harrowing announcement blasts over the news—“TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT”—and as the world falls into chaos around him, something sparks inside Gabe for the first time in a long time: the chance for adventure. When his cousin, Lisi, shows up with a car and a plan, the three begin a journey none of them ever expected—a road trip through the end of the world.

Profound, moving, and delicate, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a crystalline depiction of the best of humanity and the love we're all capable of, even in the bleakest of times. Gabe, Josie, and Lisi take turns at the wheel of this novel, steering readers along hauntingly empty highways and through the adventure that happens when we're forced to put down the carefully drawn map of our lives and look around at what really matters: each other.

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