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A queer coming-of-age story about a young man's journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.
We Are All of Us Left Behind is a queer coming-of-age story about the powers of truth and lies, of what a family really is, and the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
""This captivating coming-of-age story offers a masterclass of rhythm and pacing. It took every ounce of my discipline to not glance ahead a few pages to see where this novel would take me next. Bradley Somer has a gift of making everything he writes about feel so palpable. His descriptions of the heat, the cold, the loneliness, the human connections, the yearning for connection, the awkwardness of things said and left unsaid make this book a wonderful read."
"The adolescent narrator of Bradley Somer's We Are All of Us Left Behind lives a desperate, hardscrabble life on society's margins. Without family or friends, he embarks on a search for a grandfather he has never met, which takes him from a dusty prairie town to Belgrade via Amsterdam and Rome, a journey filled with curious encounters and interesting characters. In spare, lean, poetic prose, Bradley Somer relates a compelling, deeply thoughtful story about a young man's urgent need to live E.M. Forster's famous dictum, "Only connect!" It is a novel of the moment, a reminder that compassion is a necessity. It will stick in my mind for a long time."
A queer coming-of-age story about a young man's journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.
We Are All of Us Left Behind is a queer coming-of-age story about the powers of truth and lies, of what a family really is, and the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.
We Are All of Us Left Behind is a queer coming-of-age story about the powers of truth and lies, of what a family really is, and the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
""This captivating coming-of-age story offers a masterclass of rhythm and pacing. It took every ounce of my discipline to not glance ahead a few pages to see where this novel would take me next. Bradley Somer has a gift of making everything he writes about feel so palpable. His descriptions of the heat, the cold, the loneliness, the human connections, the yearning for connection, the awkwardness of things said and left unsaid make this book a wonderful read."
"The adolescent narrator of Bradley Somer's We Are All of Us Left Behind lives a desperate, hardscrabble life on society's margins. Without family or friends, he embarks on a search for a grandfather he has never met, which takes him from a dusty prairie town to Belgrade via Amsterdam and Rome, a journey filled with curious encounters and interesting characters. In spare, lean, poetic prose, Bradley Somer relates a compelling, deeply thoughtful story about a young man's urgent need to live E.M. Forster's famous dictum, "Only connect!" It is a novel of the moment, a reminder that compassion is a necessity. It will stick in my mind for a long time."
A queer coming-of-age story about a young man's journey from Canada to Serbia in search of his roots, about the power of truth and lies, and about the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.
Orphaned and stuck in a one-traffic-light prairie oil town, a young man yearns for a family to belong to and sets out to find his last known living relative, his estranged grandfather, somewhere in Serbia. Armed with nothing but his wit and resourcefulness, he starts his trek, from his hometown on the Canadian plains, across continents and countries, in search of acceptance and family, which he finds, but in the most unexpected people.
We Are All of Us Left Behind is a queer coming-of-age story about the powers of truth and lies, of what a family really is, and the persistence of hope when there's nothing else left.