Waiting on a Friend was named a MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Oprah Daily, Time, Debutiful, Lit Hub, and Publishers Lunch and described as “[A] powerhouse debut . . . This dazzles like a mirror ball,” by Publishers Weekly, awarding it a starred
review.

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New York City, East Village, 1984. A young woman with the power to see the ghosts of her friends is haunted by the one who refuses to return—a dazzling, big-hearted debut of friendship and community during a time of devastation and defiance.

Both heartbreaking and healing, tragic and triumphant, Waiting on a Friend is a magical retelling of queer history and a celebration of youth and camaraderie. With pathos and humor, empathy and an edge, Natalie Adler freshly reimagines the past for a new generation, reclaiming the spirit of resistance and determination that would become one of the era’s defining legacies.

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Natalie Adler has an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She was a Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. She is an editor at Lux magazine and an instructor at Sackett Street Writers. She is from New Jersey and lives in New York City.

Dave King is the author of the novel The Ha-Ha, which was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. King’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, among other venues, his fiction in Fence, and his criticism in The Village Voice. Among other awards, King is a Fellow in Literature of the American Academy in Rome.