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Housemates
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
"Tender, nuanced, and hilarious."--Oprah Daily
15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride--Time
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The Boston Globe, NBC, Them, Autostraddle, Electric Lit, Kirkus Reviews
Four housemates, looking for a fifth, the ad read. Queer preferred (we all are).
This is how Bernie, a film photographer, meets Leah, a writer, and from opposite sides of a thin bedroom wall in West Philadelphia, the two become closer than they ever could have imagined. When Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie on a road trip to settle a complicated inheritance, what ensues is an unexpected journey into the heart of America as the duo try to make sense of the times they are living in--falling in love with each other and rediscovering the power of making art along the way.
With humor, warmth, and beautifully observed characters, and told through two generations of queer artists reflecting on the question of how a person should be, Housemates is a glorious celebration of creativity, body liberation, chosen family--and of finding your place in an uncertain world.
Book Details
- Publisher: Hogarth Press
- Publish Date: May 28th, 2024
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.70in - 1.30in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9780593242230
- Categories: • Literary• LGBTQ+ - Gay• Coming of Age
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What people are saying
Sarah Weinman is an author and book critic.
What a delight this novel by @frumpenberg was, on making art, queer love and community, and figuring things out in all its messy humanity.
"Eisenberg’s debut novel, Housemates, proves she’s just as skilled a fiction writer as she is a journalist. Here, Eisenberg deftly reimagines and queers the road-trip novel by focusing on the lives of two young artists coming to terms with how they relate to themselves and to art."
"A perfect novel about making art, making a life, and how to do those things at the same time, with other people."
Praise for this book
"[An] exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love."--People
"A contemporary, queerer take on the American dream."--Marie Claire
"Tender, nuanced, and hilarious."--Oprah Daily
"[A] wise and beautiful and gorgeously gay exploration of America, art, and the rugged vast country that is love itself."--Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different
"A beautiful novel about art, community, and connection."--Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans
"Emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking, this is simply a stunning debut."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Sumptuous . . . Once Eisenberg revs the engine, she reaches luminous heights. Readers will count themselves lucky to go along for the ride."--Publishers Weekly
"A debut novel that's part The Price of Salt and part Just Kids, in which two friends journey across America in pursuit of art and love."--Electric Literature
"Eisenberg's fiction debut feels like a swim in a heated pool after a long journey."--Los Angeles Times
"A genuine book about art, love, friendship, chosen family, and America in this moment."--Harper's Bazaar
"Gorgeous . . . A novel as full as life itself, about art-making and love and friendship and making a way in the world, complicated, funny, questioning, moral."--Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
"The brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy American road-trip novel we've needed for so long."--Stacey D'Erasmo, author of The Complicities
"A perfect novel about making art, making a life, and how to do those things at the same time, with other people."--Hilary Leichter, "A Year in Reading" at The Millions
"Ripe and undeniably rich . . . Emma Copley Eisenberg is a brilliant writer, and Housemates is superb." --Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things
"Warm and inviting . . . Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity."--Sara Novic, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz
"A novel of young queer artists making love, poems, photographs and haunted houses."--Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show
"Radiant and invigoratingly truthful, Housemates invites us to think about the community and country that are possible when we love."--Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning
What people are saying
Sarah Weinman is an author and book critic.
What a delight this novel by @frumpenberg was, on making art, queer love and community, and figuring things out in all its messy humanity.
"Eisenberg’s debut novel, Housemates, proves she’s just as skilled a fiction writer as she is a journalist. Here, Eisenberg deftly reimagines and queers the road-trip novel by focusing on the lives of two young artists coming to terms with how they relate to themselves and to art."