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Take Me With You.
Jesse del Ruth has been abandoned. Thirty years into their relationship, Jesse witnesses his husband walk into their backyard, step into a strange beam of light and disappear. How could Norman desert him after a lifetime together? Where did he go? And, most confoundingly, will he ever return? With his husband missing and the world closing in, all eyes are on Jesse. Before he can understand how Norman could leave it all behind, Jesse must confront what it means to stay.
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- ISBN: 9780593851494
- Physical Description: 336 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Publishing Group, 2026.
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"Only national treasure Steven Rowley could blur the otherworldly with the everyday and turn all of it into heartache-flavored comedy." âCatherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck
A poignant, hilarious, and wholly original love story, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
College professor Jesse del Ruth has been abandoned. Thirty years into their relationship, Jesse witnesses his husband Norman get out of bed late one night, walk into their Joshua Tree backyard, step into a strange beam of light and . . . disappear. How could Norman desert him after a lifetime together? Where did he go? And, most confoundingly . . . will he ever return? Jesse knew they were longing for something, both feeling stuck. But had Norman been so stuck that his only option was to leave Jesse behind?
As Jesse struggles to understand Normanâs disappearance, he tries to piece together his new reality. Is he expected to wait patiently for a partner who may never come back? Or is this an opportunity for reinvention? He is, after all, alone for the first time in his adult life. Should he return to the classroom? Put in a pool? Get a dog? Call his estranged mother? What does it mean to be alone when youâve always been one half of a whole?
When Normanâs sister Lally lands on Jesseâs doorstep with an urgent request, Normanâs absence becomes even more profound. Add to Jesseâs grief and confusion a conspiracy-theorist neighbor, a strange man following him, and suspicions that he may have had a hand in Normanâs disappearance, and Jesse starts to crack under the pressure. With his husband missing and the world closing in, all eyes are on Jesse. Before he can understand how Norman could leave it all behind, Jesse must confront what it means to stay.
In Take Me With You, Steven Rowley brings his resonant wit and emotional insight to an epic love story â an exploration of the forces that draw two people into the same orbit and the gravity that threatens to pull them apart.
