That's What Friends Are For: a hilarious, tender story based on The Golden Girls - A USA Today Bestseller LGBTQ Fiction Novel of Secrets and Second Chances

ISBN: 1525800051

Author: Rouse, Wade

Condition: New

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!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, Rouses 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 authorIn this poignant and hilarious story inspired by TVs 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 foursomes 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 Teddys estranged sister, Trudy, shows up on their doorstep, her dramatic teenage granddaughter in tow. While Teddy tries to keep Trudy at arms 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 theyve 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, its the chosen family that truly keeps us together.