You'd Be Home Now

Description: After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.

Review Quotes: "Impossibly moving."--Vanity Fair

"Necessary, important, honest, loving, and true." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The narrative presents a nuanced look at a family trying to keep their loved ones safe and the toll that addiction takes on all of its members...A heartbreaking yet important story." -SLJ, starred review

"...compassionately illustrates the profound power of love...[a] remarkable and engrossing novel of life's balance and imbalance between struggle and joy."--Booklist, starred review

"As beautiful as it is raw... an unflinching tale of addiction." --Amy Beashel, author of The Sky Is Mine

"Raw, honest, and over-flowing with feelings... unlike anything I've ever experienced on the page." --Erin Hahn, author of You'd Be Mine and More Than Maybe

"In her gripping tale of an addict-adjacent teen and the fragile ecosystem she inhabits, Kathleen Glasgow expands our hearts and invites in a little more humanity." --Val Emmich, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel

"Renders the invisible faces of addiction with rare humanity." --Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be

"Nails what it's like to love someone with an addiction and humanizes the struggle of a teenage drug addict." --Hayley Krischer, author of Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf

"An evocative, soaring exploration of family, friendship, and the many lives that encompass a small town." --Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here