Anyone's Ghost

Anyone's Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testing death itself. But more than any of that, it is an overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry -- <b>Jonathan Safran Foer, author of <i>Everything Is Illuminated</i></b> You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book. Thompson has fired a literary flare into the black night of the universe and the illumination is spectacular. -- Junot Díaz, author of <i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao </i> Genuinely powerful -- John Boyne, author of <i>The Heart's Invisible Furies</i> This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled -- Matt Berninger, frontman of The National Anyone’s Ghost is a ferocious novel of erotic friendship, uncategorizable love, and vexed masculinity, voiced by a narrator as winning and largehearted as any character I’ve recently met. With its psychedelic prose and fierce moral intelligence, this is one of those books that makes you want to keep living. To read it is to fall more deeply in love with the world. -- Maggie Millner, author of <i>Couplets: A Love Story</i> This is a beautifully observed tale, which really stays with you, and it should be placed alongside modern love stories such as Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow * Crack * This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the right now make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I've read -- Darin Strauss, author of <i>Half a Life</i> [An] electric debut novel . . . With shades of André Aciman and Donna Tartt, the book fascinates from its first sentence . . . Thompson’s hypnotic prose and addictive plot moves and exhilarates in equal measure. * Vogue *