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Beschreibung
A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle.
It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation from Berkeley when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living—that their lives mean something, to one another if not to themselves.
But this reunion is different. They’re not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact.
A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living.
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Recently I read (I think?) somewhere that the older people get, the more diversified and unique their life experiences become and that's why adult protagonists tend to have it harder, because people can't quite relate to the ENTIRE character anymore. That was already food for thought on its own, but this book y'all, THIS BOOK!! At the 6% mark I knew I would be crying, but the sheer sob-fest this gave me in the last two chapters wasn't remotely funny. I appreciate beyond belief the foci Steven Rowley has kept in his fiction so far. His stories are about friendships, about complicated dynamics and growing pains, the way adults experience them. They teeter on the precipice of feeling like something is too late, they contemplate the doubts about having wasted your life, they make room for the increasingly big curve balls life throws at you the older you get. His books just make so much room for all these things, they balance well between the way people tend to joke, and funnily, about dark things and then the gravity of a single moment. This friend group and their story over 30 something years, this was incredible. The non-linear narrative style GETS ME EVERY TIME AND THE GUTPUNCH IT DELIVERED HERE HOLY FUCKING SHIT. It was so, so overwhelmingly sad and yet hopeful. I haven't read a lot of lit fic that celebrates the mid-life crisis like Rowley does, that commends the strength it took to get there and rallies to make the characters plow on, grow, soak it in, LIVE. Reading this and The Guncle just reminds me of the big picture, even though the circumstance of these characters is not relatable to me at all, it gets across an outlook on life and an appreciation for found family that GETS ME. Wholeheartedly recommend! CNs: alcohol and drug use, sobriety, terminal illness/cancer & AIDS, death, discussion of suicide, parental death, grief, divorce, keeping secrets, unprotected sex, prison
Beschreibung
A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle.
It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation from Berkeley when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals,” celebrations to remind themselves that life is worth living—that their lives mean something, to one another if not to themselves.
But this reunion is different. They’re not gathered as they were to bolster Marielle as her marriage crumbled, to lift Naomi after her parents died, or to intervene when Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time, Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend their pact.
A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Recently I read (I think?) somewhere that the older people get, the more diversified and unique their life experiences become and that's why adult protagonists tend to have it harder, because people can't quite relate to the ENTIRE character anymore. That was already food for thought on its own, but this book y'all, THIS BOOK!! At the 6% mark I knew I would be crying, but the sheer sob-fest this gave me in the last two chapters wasn't remotely funny. I appreciate beyond belief the foci Steven Rowley has kept in his fiction so far. His stories are about friendships, about complicated dynamics and growing pains, the way adults experience them. They teeter on the precipice of feeling like something is too late, they contemplate the doubts about having wasted your life, they make room for the increasingly big curve balls life throws at you the older you get. His books just make so much room for all these things, they balance well between the way people tend to joke, and funnily, about dark things and then the gravity of a single moment. This friend group and their story over 30 something years, this was incredible. The non-linear narrative style GETS ME EVERY TIME AND THE GUTPUNCH IT DELIVERED HERE HOLY FUCKING SHIT. It was so, so overwhelmingly sad and yet hopeful. I haven't read a lot of lit fic that celebrates the mid-life crisis like Rowley does, that commends the strength it took to get there and rallies to make the characters plow on, grow, soak it in, LIVE. Reading this and The Guncle just reminds me of the big picture, even though the circumstance of these characters is not relatable to me at all, it gets across an outlook on life and an appreciation for found family that GETS ME. Wholeheartedly recommend! CNs: alcohol and drug use, sobriety, terminal illness/cancer & AIDS, death, discussion of suicide, parental death, grief, divorce, keeping secrets, unprotected sex, prison