Together We Will Go

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Pub Date 6 Jul 2021 | Archive Date 6 Jul 2021

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Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel 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 the choice to end it. The final, unforgettable moments as they hurtle toward the decisions awaiting them will be remembered for a lifetime.

Nick Hornby meets Chuck Palahniuk in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt epistolary novel from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.

Mark Antonelli, a...


Advance Praise

PRAISE FOR J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” 
Max Brooks, author of World War Z

“Everything I read made me want to stand up and salute. I can’t stress enough how significant and moving (to say nothing of gripping and sometimes hilarious) this book is.  It’s a magnificent piece of work that will stay with me for a long, long time.”
Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized and Walkaway


“Once I started, I couldn’t put it down.  Straczynski embedded a mystery in an autobiography.  Has to be a first.”
Dan DiDio, Editor in Chief, DC Comics

“Part Hollywood how-to, part Frank McCourt-style reflection on emotional neglect and poverty, “Becoming Superman” is an enveloping look back at a unique career.”
Washington Post

“His ability to stay the course, to work hard at all times, and to keep writing were his salvation time and again. This book is a testament to that ― and it is an inspiring, touching look at how someone born into darkness can find the light and go on to do great things.”
NPR

“I just finished reading Becoming Superman and can, without a mote of hyperbole, state it is one of the most terrifying and inspirational, funny and empathic nonfiction books of our time. I’m too old to be currying favors. Just trust me. Buy it or die!”
Walter Koenig

“A fascinating journey through careers in three different professions—comic books, TV, and movies—from an accomplished master of each. Rare to have such detail and such access. A major literary autobiography!” 
Greg Bear)

“Straczynski [...] delivers a frank memoir that’s equally harrowing and triumphant.”
Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” 
Max Brooks, author of World War Z

“Everything I read made...


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