The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this
powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who
come together to make the most of their final days, from New York
Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.
Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty,
is planning a cross-country road trip. He buys a beat-up old tour bus.
He hires a young army vet to drive it. He puts out an ad for others to
join him along the way. But this will be a road trip like no other: His
passengers are all fellow disheartened souls who have decided that this
will be their final journey--upon arrival in San Francisco, they will
find a cliff with an amazing view of the ocean at sunset, hit the gas,
and drive out of this world.
The unlikely companions include a young woman with a chronic pain
sensory disorder and another who was relentlessly bullied at school for
her size; a bipolar, party-loving neo-hippie; a gentle coder with a
literal hole in his heart and blue skin; and a poet dreaming of a better
world beyond this one. We get to know them through access to their
texts, emails, voicemails, and the daily journal entries they write as
the price of admission for this trip.
By turns tragic, funny, quirky, charming, and deeply moving, Together
We Will Go explores the decisions that brings these characters
together, and the relationships that grow between them, with some
discovering love and affection for the first time. But as they cross
state lines and complications to the initial plan arise, it becomes
clear that this is a novel as much about the will to live as it is the
choice to end it. The final, unforgettable moments as they hurtle toward
the outcomes awaiting them will be remembered for a lifetime.
