Say You're Here

ADORATION. YEARNING. BOYISHNESS. QUEER LOVE. INTERRACIAL LOVE. BROTHERHOOD. MOTHERHOOD. FRIENDSHIP. SEX. LONELINESS. INTIMACY. JOY.All of this and more spills from the pages of Say You're Here, the unforgettable debut novel by Arinze Ifeakandu.Kachi, who has come to the Midwest from Nigeria, is aware of his singularity at university, and feels a deep vulnerability among so many striving artists, writers, thinkers. Meanwhile Noah is older, married to a woman, and has two sons. He bears responsibility for a brother whose precarious existence seems to mirror Noah's own, and his sudden love for Kachi comes as a surprise - but also feels inevitable. Somehow, the two men find refuge in each other, even as their relationship threatens to break each of their very different worlds apart.From the award-winning author of God's Children Are Little Broken Things, the much-anticipated Say You're Here is a novel that begins with a one-night Grindr hook-up between two men in a hotel room, the snow falling thickly outside, and spools out from there to encompass families and friends, to span multiple continents, and to delve deep into the complexities of the human heart.