Adam Gnade creëert een onderling verbonden wereld waarin personages en thema's verweven zijn door zijn boeken en "sprekende liedjes". Zijn fictie vervolgt plotlijnen die open zijn gelaten door de "sprekende liedjes", met als doel een uitgestrekte en gedetailleerde persoonlijke geschiedenis van het hedendaagse Amerikaanse leven samen te stellen. De werken van Gnade, uitgegeven door Pioneers Press en Three One G, vertegenwoordigen een unieke poging om het complexe, intieme verhaal van een moderne tijdperk vast te leggen.
San Diego-born author Adam Gnade writes about his homeland in the tradition of regionalists like Louise Erdrich and Willa Cather. Gnade's California is a place of border clash, of a glimpse of stormy sea from a top coastal hills or rollercoasters, of ratty beach apartments and punk shows. A collaborative release by Three One G and Pioneers Press, this is a story that asks, What does it mean to hold fast to your dreams, ethics, and beliefs while the whole world tries to tame you?
Set in Southern California in 2000, this novel captures the chaotic early days of the internet through the lens of a daily newspaper's online team. It explores themes of innocence and transformation in America, showcasing a blend of HTML coding, nightlife, and the emergence of internet culture, including the iconic "cats on the internet." With a lyrical and philosophical tone, the story reflects on a bygone era filled with wild experiences and raw authenticity, appealing to fans of contemporary literary fiction and vibrant cultural references.
Through the eyes of protagonist James Jackson Bozic, the narrative explores themes of hope and redemption amid life's struggles, capturing a journey from childhood to adulthood across various settings. Blending elements of a murder mystery and a love story, it reflects on displacement and the search for safety and belonging in a tumultuous America. The book resonates with a sense of resilience, emphasizing the human spirit's fight for a better life, even as challenges loom large.
Falling somewhere between Trainspotting and Like Water for Chocolate, Adam Gnade's self-described food novel frames each chapter around a meal, and from there moves wild in all directions. After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different takes place in San Diego taco shops and rundown beach apartments, on the amusement park boardwalk at 3am and in cars bound for Tijuana and drunken glory. Like Proust's baroque autobiographical fantasies, this is a book rich with details and life. Gnade's youthful characters sink to hard drugs and deep depression as they navigate life at the end of the last century. They celebrate and they battle with their demons and throughout it all they eat. This is not a food snob's novel. Instead Gnade writes about the pain and joy of life and the ways that common, everyday food is there with us at each step. This is a book of deli sub sandwiches, endless burritos, eggplant parmesan, the magnificence of good sourdough bread, of box brownies and Nacho Cheese Doritos, rolled tacos and the perfect tortilla. After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different is a raging, ecstatic, troubled book that shows a world of food and a world of life, each inextricable from the other.
A pocketsize novel concerning modern farm living, wayward country punks, and the New Old West, Adam Gnade's Float Me Away, Floodwaters is a documentation of life on the margins of society, in the places forgotten by the city--the honkytonks and interstate campgrounds, the ghosts of cattle-towns and the desolate strip-malls. It's about ripping all the bullshit from your life and looking for things that make living worthwhile in the midst of poverty, political divisiveness, and a dying empire. Float me away, the story says, away from loss and defeat, toward somewhere without prisons up the road and white supremacists in the holler and long, daunting winters and that hard prairie wind that kicks up in the morning and doesn't quit all day. Float Me Away, Floodwaters is an ode to survival and place, home and away ...
