Join us online to celebrate the launch of Joshua Kent Bookman‘s second novel To: All The Friends I Killed along with writer Cary Alan Johnson.

After the death of his best friend, a young man vanishes from the United States, seeking a fresh start in France. He stumbles upon work at a vineyard, and thinks he has found a way out in a land of ancestral beauty.

But he quickly discovers Europe alone can’t solve his problems. Haunted by his past, he has to come to terms with his own and his society’s expectations of adulthood. Dark enchanted truths about love and friendship complicate the story of how he lost his best friend- a sister, a girlfriend, a lodestar.

In this coming-of-age novel, we are faced with the life choices of the millennial generation, the postponement of traditional benchmarks in our twenties, and the queer or asexual attitude towards contemporary loneliness.

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Joshua Kent Bookman (1990) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and reformed by life and work in Sweden, France, and Italy. Previous published works include Fruits of Mer (Paulette Éditrice), close to elsewhere, Hitom, and Some Reverse American Dreams (LYS Förlag). To: All The Friends I Killed is Bookman’s second novel.

Cary Alan Johnson is an author, activist and Africanist raised in Brooklyn. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. A long-time innovator in queer politics and cultural activism, he was a founder of several ground-breaking organizations, including the Blackheart Collective, Gay Men of African Descent, Other Countries, and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. A public health and HIV specialist, Cary is currently the country director for Population Services International in Burundi.