This Is the End of Something but It's Not the End of You

About this book

Adam Gnades third novel This is the End of Something But Its Not the End of You is held up by a Springsteenian sense of hope and a desire for redemption of finding glory and escape friendship and love in hard times. Like Dickens David Copperfield Ferrantes Neapolitan tetralogy and Karl Ove Knausgaards My Struggle series this is the story of a human life kindergarten to adulthood ratty beach apartment to bohemian party house feverish basement to ramshackle farmhouse. Through the eyes of Gnades protagonist James Jackson Bozic we see how life scars you changes you as you fight to find a safe place for yourself. It is in turn a murder mystery a love story and a vast sweeping panoramic look at America on the edge of collapse. Its a story of displacement strange shores new mornings. As James says in the book "I thought of how sometimes in the midst of survival life will jerk you away from your home how it will push you out across the map away from the people you love or into the path of others." This Is the End... is about scratching and clawing for a better safer more satisfying life even as the sky comes crashing down.