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An intimate portrait of a burgeoning relationship against the vast landscape of the open road, Housemates is a warm and inviting novel. Like the large format camera her character wields, Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity. And finally there’s a book about Pennsylvania and Philly that looks like the place I know and love!
— Sara Nović, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz
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Housemates is the brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy American road trip novel we’ve needed for so long. Eisenberg writes about the way we live now with tremendous insight and a wide, wide heart. Believe me: this is one journey you don't want to miss.
— Stacey D’Erasmo, author of The Complicities
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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
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Housemates is the brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy American road trip novel we’ve needed for so long. Eisenberg writes about the way we live now with tremendous insight and a wide, wide heart. Believe me: This is one journey you don't want to miss.
— Stacey D’Erasmo, author of The Complicities
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A brilliant book about friendship, found family, and jawns. It’s an ode to our bonds told through exquisite character work that makes the world feel so lived in.
— Debutiful, “Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024”
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This celebration of queer life can’t get into our hands soon enough!
— Hey Alma, “Most anticipated debut books of 2024”
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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’ in The Millions
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[A] most anticipated book of 2024 . . . This celebration of queer life can’t get into our hands soon enough!
— Hey Alma
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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
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Ripe and undeniably rich . . . I fell deeply in love with this book, marveling at its lushness and its attention to detail, happy to follow wherever I was led. Emma Copley Eisenberg is a brilliant writer and Housemates is superb.
— Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things
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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
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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
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Eisenberg has a poet’s eye for truth, and her prose is gorgeously precise and empathetic while remaining cleareyed. Emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking, this is simply a stunning debut.
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Housemates is a warm and inviting novel. Like the large format camera her character wields, Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity. And finally there’s a book about Pennsylvania and Philly that looks like the place I know and love!
— Sara Nović, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz
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My favorite book of the year . . . a wise and beautiful and gorgeously gay exploration of America, art, and the rugged vast country that is love itself.
— Sarah Thankam Matthews, author of All This Could Be Different
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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. Bernie and Leah are still with me. I won’t ever forget them.
— Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
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My favorite book of the year . . . 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
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Gorgeous . . . a novel as full as life itself, about art-making and love and friendship and finding a way in the world, complicated, funny, questioning, moral . . . Bernie and Leah are still with me. I won’t ever forget them.
— Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
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Eisenberg has a poet’s eye for truth, and her prose is gorgeously precise and empathetic while remaining cleareyed. Emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking, this is simply a stunning debut.
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Sumptuous . . . Once Eisenberg revs the engine, she reaches luminous heights. Readers will come themselves lucky to go along for the ride.
— Publishers Weekly
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Sumptuous . . . Once Eisenberg revs the engine, she reaches luminous heights. Readers will count themselves lucky to go along for the ride.
— Publishers Weekly
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Gorgeous . . . Housemates is 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. Bernie and Leah are still with me. I won’t ever forget them.
— Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book
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The brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy American road-trip novel we’ve needed for so long . . . Emma Copley Eisenberg writes about the way we live now with tremendous insight and a wide, wide heart. Believe me: This is one journey you don’t want to miss.
— Stacey D’Erasmo, author of The Complicities
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Ripe and undeniably rich . . . a full-on sensory experience . . . I fell deeply in love with this book. . . . Emma Copley Eisenberg is a brilliant writer, and Housemates is superb.
— Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things
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Warm and inviting . . . Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity. And finally a book about Pennsylvania and Philly that looks like the place I know and love!
— Sara Nović, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz
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A novel of young queer artists making love, poems, photographs and haunted houses.
— Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show