TOGETHER WE WILL GO

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. Life has other plans for a group of strangers who want to end it all on a cross-country road trip, but then bond in ways they never could have imagined.

Mark cannot remember a time when he didn't want to die. Now he's pushing thirty, drowning in student debt, and suffocated by his failed writing career, and decides to go out on a high note while offering the same opportunity to other desperate souls who share his outlook.

The result is a cross-country road trip with a rented busload of exceptional people who have made the ultimate choice: a woman with a rare condition that makes the slightest touch agonizing, a coder with a literal hole in his heart, a bipolar woman tired of the divide, an old man who may or may not have killed his wife, and a teenager tired of being called fat. Together they travel the miles, gathering new members and shedding others, navigating loss, family, and law enforcement, each life realized in ways that are powerfully distinct.

By turns tragic, funny, heartfelt, quirky, charming, and deeply moving, the story reveals what brought these characters together, and explores the relationships that emerge between them, with some discovering love and affection for the first time. And in a desperate race against time and overwhelming odds as they find themselves pursued by police and others determined to prevent them from completing their journey, some of the passengers come to understand that, in readying themselves for death, they've remembered how to live.

J. Michael Straczynski, known for working in a variety of genres and media, has penned hundreds of hours of television, comic books for Marvel and DC that have sold over 13 million copies, and movies that have grossed over a billion dollars. He is the widely-acclaimed creator of Netflix's Sense8 and writer for the Clint Eastwood movie Changeling, for which he was nominated for a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for Best Screenplay. His graphic novels have consistently ended up on the New York Times bestseller list, and his extensive list of awards includes the Christopher Award, the E Pluribus Unum Award from the American Cinema Foundation, the Hugo Award, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Eisner Award.