A New York Times BestsellerA TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club PickA Big Chill for our times
celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselves—by the bestselling
and beloved author of The Guncle. It’s been a minute—or five years—since Jordan Vargas last saw
his college friends and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives
officially began. Now Jordan Jordy Naomi Craig and Marielle find themselves at the brink of
a new decade with all the responsibilities of adulthood yet no closer to having their lives
figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they’ve reunited in Big Sur to
honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living funerals ” celebrations to remind
themselves that life is worth living—that their lives mean something to one another if not to
themselves. But this reunion is different. They’re not gathered as they were to bolster
Marielle as her marriage crumbled to lift Naomi after her parents died or to intervene when
Craig pleaded guilty to art fraud. This time Jordan is sitting on a secret that will upend
their pact. A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us
going coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart The Celebrants is a moving tale
about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us
celebrate our lives even amid the deepest challenges of living.
