Float Me Away, Floodwaters (book)

from Adam Gnade

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Paperback book
Three One G/Bread & Roses Press
ISBN 978-1-939899-37-8
144 pages


A pocketsize novel concerning modern farm living, wayward country punks, and the New Old West, Adam Gnade’s Float Me Away, Floodwaters is a documentation of life on the margins of society, in the places forgotten by the city—the honkytonks and interstate campgrounds, the ghosts of cattle-towns and the desolate strip-malls. It’s about ripping all the bullshit from your life and looking for things that make living worthwhile in the midst of poverty, political divisiveness, and a dying empire. “Float me away,” the story says, away from loss and defeat, toward “somewhere without prisons up the road and white supremacists in the holler and long, daunting winters and that hard prairie wind that kicks up in the morning and doesn’t quit all day.” Float Me Away, Floodwaters is an ode to survival and place, home and away …


“An incantation for the end times.” —Julia Eff, author of Don’t Piss Down My Back & Tell Me It’s Raining


“Gnade is the king of underground fiction. Every word is truth.” —Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, author of Wallop


“This book reads like a prayer that we can all somehow stay afloat in this country deluged with sadness and pain.” —Bart Schaneman, author of The Silence is the Noise

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Adam Gnade

Adam Gnade's (guh nah dee) work is released as a series of books and records that share characters and themes; the fiction writing continuing plot-lines left open by the self-described "talking songs" in an attempt to compile a vast, detailed, interconnected, personal history of contemporary American life. His work is released by Bread & Roses Press, the Numero Group, and Three One G. ... more

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