{"product_id":"chosen-family","title":"Chosen Family","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, contemporary and attuned to the subtle negotiations that shape friendships and first loves.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, profound, and deeply true, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender story about love, identity, family, and whether it is possible to combine the three into something entirely new. I turned the pages so fast, it felt like reading a mystery, except the only mystery is the spectacular complexity of the human heart. Wow, what a novel.\" \u003cb\u003e--Holly Brickley, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With great wit, candor, and empathy, Madeleine Gray's \u003ci\u003eChosen Family \u003c\/i\u003etells a story of queer community, one where the lines between friendship and love blur, where characters try to forge new paths, sometimes stumbling gloriously along the way. Smart, moving, and funny, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to those who reject convention in hopes of something brighter, truer, and more alive.\" \u003cb\u003e--Thomas Grattan, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with \u003ci\u003eChosen Family.\u003c\/i\u003e Beautiful, devastating, hilarious and full of life.\" \u003cb\u003e--Jessica Stanley, author of \u003ci\u003eConsider Yourself Kissed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Madeleine Gray's \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e resists the tidy arc of the queer coming-of-age novel, which is exactly what makes it worth your time. Nell and Eve's friendship -- eighteen years of misfire and repair, desire unnamed and finally, devastatingly, named -- unfolds with the comic precision of a writer who knows that intimacy is mostly a series of near-misses. Gray is after something more elastic than a love story: the chosen family of the title isn't a consolation prize; it's the whole point.\" \u003cb\u003e--Hannah Pittard, author of \u003ci\u003eIf You Love It, Let It Kill You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Chosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a dynamo of a novel. Madeleine Gray writes with swagger and wryness, crafting a will-they-won't-they for the ages. This is work that begs us to consider the breadth of friendship, love, and forgiveness. What do we owe each other? What are we willing to sacrifice in order to keep one another safe? Gorgeous, hilarious work. I ate this one up.\" \u003cb\u003e--Kristen Arnett, author of \u003ci\u003eMostly Dead Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A passionate ode to friendship that is sharp and hilarious funny, brave and utopian, sexy but not too serious about it. Most of all it felt deeply real and true.\" \u003cb\u003e--Niamh Campbell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Happy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Whatever \u003ci\u003eit \u003c\/i\u003eis, Gray has it!\" \u003cb\u003e--Nigella Lawson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever. From school, to university, to careers, Nell and Eve's relationship is a life raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the passion, guilt, shame, and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes, Nell abruptly walks away, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they've built with their seven-year-old daughter, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what's going on in someone else's head? And what's love got to do, got to do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with Gray's characteristic big-heartedness and dark wit, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer modern classic that reminds us again and again that sometimes the most fulfilling and life-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/04\/2026 (EAN 9780063485709, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/22\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9780063485709, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eGray, Madeleine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadeleine Gray\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eGreen Dot\u003c\/em\u003e. She has written for the\u003cem\u003e Times Literary Supplement, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eGuardian, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eBBC, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSydney Review of Books, \u003c\/em\u003e among other publications. She lives in Sydney, Australia. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496161575190,"sku":"9780063485709","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780063485709.jpg?v=1783054521","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/chosen-family","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}