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Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Rowley's (The Guncle, 2021) latest is a superbly crafted narrative about five college friends who make a unique pact. After losing their close friend, Alec, at a young age while at Berkeley, Marielle, Craig, Jordan, Jordy (collectively "The Jordans"), and Naomi agree that they will all have the right to invoke a living funeral. At any point, each can call on the rest to come to a place of their choosing and celebrate their life while they are still alive. Each section is dedicated to one "funeral" and often provides stories of the group's younger selves to explain why they invoke the pact when they do. As the pact morphs and shifts into a lifeline in moments of crisis--whether it's divorce, death, sickness, or criminality--past secrets are revealed, and their bonds are both tested and strengthened. Beautifully written and culminating in a phenomenally wellrealized resonant set-piece, Rowley's tale wonderfully captures how deeply important friendships are. Like Ron Currie Jr.'s Everything Matters! (2009) this is a lifeaffirming work, one that is both hilarious and richly affecting, with an unforgettable cast of engaging characters that readers will wish they could spend more time with."
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Publisher's Weekly Review: "Rowley (The Guncle) offers another winning story of a friend group held together by an unusual bond. Five friends at U.C. Berkeley are reeling from another friend's overdose death. Just before graduating in 1995, they make a pact. Each of them may ask for a "living funeral" in a moment of crisis, and their friends will show up to celebrate their life. After college, they drift apart. Then, in 2013, Marielle Holland, now living in Washington, D.C., sounds the alarm, flailing through an impending divorce. In 2016, Naomi Ito's parents die in a plane crash, pushing the strident Naomi, now a music executive, to drag them all to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. In 2018, Craig Scheffler, who relies on humor to shield his emotions, is facing prison for art fraud when the friends ambush him for his own "funeral" in New York City. Finally in 2023, Jordy Tosic and Jordan Vargas, now husbands in New York City, activate the pact because Jordan's cancer is back. Faced with an impending real funeral, the quintet, now 50, gathers a final time for a genuinely heartfelt conclusion. Rowley admirably avoids sentimentality along the way, and there's plenty of fresh and witty dialogue. For anyone needing a reminder about the importance of friendships, this will more than do the trick. Agent: Rob Wiesbach, Rob Wiesbach Creative. (May)Correction: An earlier version of this review misstated the city two characters live in."
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Additional Information

Subjects	ordreq 5/17/23 xa
Publisher	Thorndike Press Large Print,2023
Edition	Large print edition.
Description	p. (large print) cm.
ISBN	9798885789486
Other	Classic View