We Have Reached the End of Our Show (Paperback)

Ali Gordon

ISBN 10: 1957833211 / ISBN 13: 9781957833217

Published by Wildling Press, 2025

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Paperback. An announcement blares over the TV: TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: We Have Reached the End of Our Show (Paperback)
• Publisher: Wildling Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1957833211
• ISBN 13: 9781957833217
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

An announcement blares over the TV: TWENTY-FIVE DAYS UNTIL IMPACT

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.

About the Author

ALI 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.