We Have Reached the End of Our Show
by Ali Gordon
“. . . a beautiful and heartrending journey.”
“. . . a gorgeously intimate story that feels like a gentle walk through the poignance of true love, the whimsical nihilism of creativity, and the gift of certainty in an uncertain world.”
“. . . a beautifully stark reminder of everything we fight to live for—right to the very end.”
“There is nothing I wouldn't give to be able to read this for the first time again.”
“In 160 pages, Ali Gordon has managed to write a story that is going to stay with me for years. I hope everyone gets the chance to read this.”
Thanks to an unrelenting cycle of cancer treatments, thirty-two-year-old Gabe is too weak to dance gracefully on stage or through NYC’s sparkling social scene like he once did. And although he and Josie have been in love for six years, lately Gabe’s been feeling more like Josie’s patient than his boyfriend. So one day, Gabe makes a choice: he’ll forgo treatment and live out his remaining days on his own terms.
Then a harrowing announcement blasts over the news—TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT—and as the world falls into chaos around him, something sparks inside Gabe for the first time in a long time: the chance for adventure. When his cousin, Lisi, shows up with a car and a plan, the three begin a journey none of them ever expected—a road trip through the end of the world.
Profound, moving, and delicate, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a crystalline depiction of the best of humanity and the love we’re all capable of, even in the bleakest of times. Gabe, Josie, and Lisi take turns at the wheel of this novel, steering readers along hauntingly empty highways and through the adventure that happens when we’re forced to put down the carefully drawn map of our lives and look around at what really matters: each other.
Then a harrowing announcement blasts over the news—TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT—and as the world falls into chaos around him, something sparks inside Gabe for the first time in a long time: the chance for adventure. When his cousin, Lisi, shows up with a car and a plan, the three begin a journey none of them ever expected—a road trip through the end of the world.
Profound, moving, and delicate, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a crystalline depiction of the best of humanity and the love we’re all capable of, even in the bleakest of times. Gabe, Josie, and Lisi take turns at the wheel of this novel, steering readers along hauntingly empty highways and through the adventure that happens when we’re forced to put down the carefully drawn map of our lives and look around at what really matters: each other.
Speculative Fiction / LGBTQ+ Love / Grief / Art
Praise for We Have Reached
“We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a beautiful and heartrending journey toward an inevitable, but profoundly meaningful, conclusion. Gordon’s debut burns with a fundamental truth: that lives, loves, and worlds all eventually end, likely sooner than we think—which only makes what we do along the way matter even more.”
—Jason Pargin, NYT-bestselling author of I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
“Ali Gordon has crafted a gorgeously intimate story that feels like a gentle walk through the poignance of true love, the whimsical nihilism of creativity, and the gift of certainty in an uncertain world. I fell deeply in love with the characters, and by the end of the tale, all I wanted was one more moment with each of them.”
—Amy Vorpahl, professional DM, writer, producer, host, gamer at Nerdist, Geek and Sundry, Buzzfeed, and Dropout
“Through the lens of Gordon’s evocative storytelling, We Have Reached the End of Our Show is a beautifully stark reminder of everything we fight to live for—right to the very end.”
—Kara Badalamenti, author of Cursed Coven and Phantom
About the AuthorALI GORDON is a writer, performer, and educator living in Los Angeles. A New York City native, Ali spent many years in New York working as a musical theater actor as well as performing comedy at the renowned Upright Citizens Brigade theater. She holds a double major in musical theater and English from the University of Michigan. Ali also writes musicals and has performed and taught comedy all over the world. She promises she is quite funny despite the subject matter of this, her debut novel.
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