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Product information "That's What Friends Are for"


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USA TODAY bestseller • Today Show Best Feel Good Read • Bookbub Best New Fiction • A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Zibby Media • US Weekly Best Romance • Featured on People.com, Newsweek.com and CBS-NY/Club Calvi Book Club


"By turns hilarious, tender, and devastating, Rouse’s novel explores what it means to be the sandwich generation of gays today — caught between those who paved the way for equality, those who are too young to credit them, and a world that seems increasingly hostile." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

In this poignant and hilarious story inspired by TV’s beloved The Golden Girls, bestselling author Wade Rouse celebrates love, aging, finding your people, and the art of impeccably timed one-liners.

Theodore Copeland has created a fabulous life in the desert oasis of Palm Springs, where he shares a fabulous pink mid-century home with three fabulous friends: Barry, a former actor still clinging to his youth, his hair, and the memory of the dream role that killed his career; Ron, an uprooted Christian from the Midwest with a big heart but no one to give it to; Sid, who, after coming out late in life, has never found love. Teddy is the caustic, unspoken leader of “The Golden Gays”—the foursome’s monthly drag tribute to The Golden Girls. Despite their foibles and bickering, they have turned their golden years into a golden era.

But the harmony of their desert enclave becomes a carousel of emotional baggage when Teddy’s estranged sister, Trudy, shows up on their doorstep, her dramatic teenage granddaughter in tow. While Teddy tries to keep Trudy at arm’s length, she manages to wheedle her way into the lives of the Golden Gays, until the real reason for her visit is revealed and the secrets they’ve all been keeping from each other unravel faster than a hastily stitched hemline.

A novel that gives thanks to “old” friends, That's What Friends Are For proves that while family may be the tie that binds, it’s the chosen family that truly keeps us together.

Subtitle
A Hilarious, Tender Story Based on the Golden Girls

H | W | D | g
236 mm | 157 mm | 27 mm | 456 gr

Publication year
2026

Age rating
0

Edition
Hardcover

Publisher
Mira Books

ISBN-10
1525800051

Author
Rouse, Wade

Language
Englisch

Page Count
352

Topics
Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, nicht nach Genre, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Regionalroman, Familienleben, Belletristik: Humor, Ratgeber: Generationenbeziehungen, Themen und Probleme, Moderne und zeitgenössische Liebesromane / Romance, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Heranwachsen, Kleinstädtische Gemeinden / Kleinstadtleben, Dörfer, Landgemeinden / Landleben

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