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GRACE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
An extraordinary YA coming-of-age debut that beautifully straddles literary and commercial fiction, the book is about loneliness and friendship, found families and new horizons, love, death, and life, and it happens to take place against the backdrop of a zombie pandemic.
The story, which begins seven months after the start of the zombie apocalypse, takes nineteen-year-old Gracecareful, studious, over-conscientiouson a road trip from Texas to Malibu in hopes that she'll somehow connect with global pop star Harry Park, who she feels (improbably) might be the answer to all her problems. Along the way, she finds an unlikely new companion in Aidan -- also nineteen, irrepressible, beautiful-on-the-brink-of-being-fabulouswho becomes her best friend, and who is an unforgettable character to add to the LGBTQ+ canon.
On the slow, hazardous, apocalyptic road west, they meet families who offer them food and shelter; they raid a mall for a would-be prom dress; they encounter a loving and supportive queer community holed up in a motel in Palm Springs; and they fight the zombies with every iota of their strength and knowledge. Trimmer explores themes of loneliness, family, identity, purpose, community, and agapelove in its most profound, selfless sensewhile delivering a buddy-movie road trip and a somehow believable and swoony romance (or two). That all this grace can be found against a backdrop of devastation and carnage, at what appears to be the very end of the world, is a testament to Trimmer's writing and depth of feeling. This is a novel for our time.
ChriChristian Trimmer is a former children's and YA book editor and editorial director (at Hyperion, S&S, Henry Holt BYFR and MTV Books), who has worked on some of the best-selling and most acclaimed children's projects of the last twenty years. With Grace at the End of the World, he sought to tell the story of his closest friendship but set against a slightly more cinematic backdrop than the dorms of Northwestern University. The things he thinks about mostdeath and loss, coping mechanisms, romance, loneliness, celebrity, Muriel's Weddingall found their way into his debut novel. He is also the author of eight picture books. He lives with his husband in New York.
On the slow, hazardous, apocalyptic road west, they meet families who offer them food and shelter; they raid a mall for a would-be prom dress; they encounter a loving and supportive queer community holed up in a motel in Palm Springs; and they fight the zombies with every iota of their strength and knowledge. Trimmer explores themes of loneliness, family, identity, purpose, community, and agapelove in its most profound, selfless sensewhile delivering a buddy-movie road trip and a somehow believable and swoony romance (or two). That all this grace can be found against a backdrop of devastation and carnage, at what appears to be the very end of the world, is a testament to Trimmer's writing and depth of feeling. This is a novel for our time.
ChriChristian Trimmer is a former children's and YA book editor and editorial director (at Hyperion, S&S, Henry Holt BYFR and MTV Books), who has worked on some of the best-selling and most acclaimed children's projects of the last twenty years. With Grace at the End of the World, he sought to tell the story of his closest friendship but set against a slightly more cinematic backdrop than the dorms of Northwestern University. The things he thinks about mostdeath and loss, coping mechanisms, romance, loneliness, celebrity, Muriel's Weddingall found their way into his debut novel. He is also the author of eight picture books. He lives with his husband in New York.
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Published 2027-02-01 by Little Brown Books for Young Readers |