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Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
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Publisher's summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl

“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily

15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time

BookTok’s 11 Most-Talked About Books of The Year (So Far)—Rolling Stone

What does it feel like, standing in the moments that will mark your life?

When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and one another. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography.

After Bernie’s former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished Daniel Dunn, dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs.

What ensues is a journey into the heart of the nation, bringing the housemates into conversation with people from all walks of life—“the absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide country”—as they try to make sense of the times they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to chase their own ideas and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both romantically and artistically.

Warm and insightful, Housemates is a story of youth and freedom—a glorious celebration of queer life, and how art and love might save us all.

©2024 Emma Copley Eisenberg (P)2024 Random House Audio
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
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Critic reviews

“Tender, introspective, and at times delightfully funny, this is the perfect book to bring on a road trip.”Time (15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride)

“[An] exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love.”People

“A contemporary, queerer take on the American dream.”—Marie Claire

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Love this story and writing

The writing style is right up my alley. Unique descriptions and perspectives. Wholly original characters. Loved it!

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So well written

This is worth your time. The story of the lives of the characters is interesting and not typical. The writing language is clever. I listened at 1.25 and it still felt slow at times. I’m glad I listened.

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fascinating and immersive story telling!

First time I listened to an audiobook! fascinating and immersive story telling! I liked all the characters, it felt very real

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Gratitude for some good queer love

The characters are real, like real people, real feelings, real bodies, real weirdness. It was a strange and good and sad and beautiful love story with just the right amount of everything else. I love this authors first book, too, and think about it from time to time. This has the same level of introspection regarding class, politics, gender. I grew up in a weird rural place and so many writers get weird rural places wrong, but Emma Copley Eisenberg is one who gets it right.

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A gutting love story for today.

Wonderful representation in a relatable, wrenching love story that touched me to my core. Can’t wait to read more by this author.

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Eh, fine? Slow

This book was hard to get through. The writing style is not my favorite and it was hard to feel connected or care about the characters. Not the worst but not for me.

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