Thompson, August - Anyone's Ghost

Anyone's Ghost

Author: August Thompson

Genre: Contemporary, Adult, Romance, Coming of Age

Pages: 307

Publisher: Picador

Release Date: June 19, 2025

Format: Paperback

Synopsis:

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood

It took three car crashes to kill Jake.

Theron David Alden is there for the first two: the summer they meet in rural New Hampshire, when he’s fifteen and anxious, and Jake’s seventeen and a natural; then six years later in New York City, those too-short, ecstatic, painful nights that change both their lives forever—the end of the dream and the longing for the dream and the dream itself, all at once.

Theron is not there for the third crash.

And yet, their story contains so much joy and the glorious, stupid simplicity of a boyhood joke; the devastation of insecurity; the way a great song can distill a universe; the limits of what we can know about each other; the mysterious, porous, ungraspable fault line between yourself and the person you love better than yourself; the beautiful, toxic elixir of need and hope and want.

LGBT Themes:

• Achillean
• Coming of Age

Relevant Tags:

Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Romance, Coming Of Age, Adult, Gay, Achillean, Adult Fiction