![]() ![]() The Celebrants is scheduled for publication next Tuesday by Putnam. My way of dealing with it is wanting to tell people that they’re important to me.” If it’s not losing a person, we’ve lost time. “I don’t know if complete resolution is possible, but I’m at peace with the situation and what loss was.…We’ve lost so much over the last few years. “That’s what writers do-we take some kernel of what we’re wrestling with and we’re able to build characters around it,” he said. Rowley told the Today show that the novel was inspired by the death of one of his college friends from breast cancer. Hager also called the novel “the perfect summer book” and said it will “make you cry on one page and laugh hysterically on the other.” ![]() It’s an ode to the power of friendship and our shared history.” ![]() “Steven is known for his hilarious humor, so it’s so, so funny. “I loved this book so much,” Hager said on the show. A critic for Kirkus called the book “a touch wiseacre but more wise.” Rowley’s novel, his follow-up to his Thurber Prize–winning bestseller, The Guncle, tells the story of a group of college friends who meet at a series of reunions over the years. Jenna Bush Hager selected Steven Rowley’s The Celebrants as the latest pick for her Today show book club. ![]()
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