Housemates

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love People in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow GirlTender, nuanced, and hilarious.Oprah Daily LGBTQ+ Books to Read for PrideTimeA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: People, The Boston Globe, NBC, Them, Autostraddle, Electric Lit, Kirkus ReviewsThis Random House Book Club edition includes a QA with Torrey Peters and a discussion guide.What does it feel like, standing in the moments that will mark your life?When Bernie replies to Leahs ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and one another. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing Bernie through her photography.After Bernies former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished Daniel Dunn, dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs.What ensues is a journey into the heart of the nation, bringing the housemates into conversation with people from all walks of lifethe absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide countryas they try to make sense of the times they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to chase their own ideas and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both romantically and artistically.Warm and insightful, Housemates is a story of youth and freedoma glorious celebration of queer life, and how art and love might save us all.