Housemates

Praise

“A brilliant book about friendship, found family, and jawns. It’s an ode to our bonds told through exquisite character work that makes the world feel so lived in.”—Debutiful, “Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024”

“A debut novel that’s part The Price of Salt and part Just Kids, in which two friends journey across America in pursuit of art and love.”—Electric Literature

“Eisenberg’s fiction debut feels like a swim in a heated pool after a long journey.”—Los Angeles Times, “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in May”
 
“Here’s one for the road-tripping vacationers. . . A genuine book about art, love, friendship, chosen family, and America in this moment.”—Harper’s Bazaar, “Best Beach Reads of 2024”
 
“An adventure of a lifetime . . . as heartwarming as it is inspiring.”—SheReads, “Best Book Club Picks of Summer 2024”

“[A] most anticipated book of 2024 . . . This celebration of queer life can’t get into our hands soon enough!”—Hey Alma
 
“Gorgeous . . . Housemates is a novel as full as life itself, about art-making and love and friendship and making a way in the world, complicated, funny, questioning, moral.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Hero of This Book

“The brilliant, queer, abundant, art-drunk, soulful, sexy American road-trip novel we’ve needed for so long.”—Stacey D’Erasmo, author of The Complicities

“A perfect novel about making art, making a life, and how to do those things at the same time, with other people.”—Hilary Leichter, “A Year in Reading” at The Millions

“Ripe and undeniably rich . . . Emma Copley Eisenberg is a brilliant writer, and Housemates is superb.” —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things

“Warm and inviting . . . Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity.”—Sara Nović, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz

“A beautiful novel about art, community, and connection.”—Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of Real Americans

“A novel of young queer artists making love, poems, photographs and haunted houses.”—Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show

“Radiant and invigoratingly truthful, Housemates invites us to think about the community and country that are possible when we love.”—Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning

“[A] wise and beautiful and gorgeously gay exploration of America, art, and the rugged vast country that is love itself.”—Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of All This Could Be Different

“Emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking, this is simply a stunning debut.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Sumptuous . . . Once Eisenberg revs the engine, she reaches luminous heights. Readers will count themselves lucky to go along for the ride.”—Publishers Weekly