My novel SEE FRIENDSHIP is available for preorder + has a cover (!)

To quote every political fundraising email: Did you see this / I'm writing with an important request / Can I count on you?

In the spring of 2023, I sold a novel called See Friendship — and I am crazy happy to announce it will be on sale on March 4, 2025. (Technically, I announced it on Tuesday — I would’ve sent this post out yesterday, but I forgot to click the “schedule” button.) What’s more, it’s now available to be preordered. Here’s a neat summary page on my publisher’s website, which includes all sorts of relevant information and links. And here is the cover, which, wow, can you believe my luck:

See Friendship is a “literary novel.” It has been described as located within the four quadrants of “funny, sad, horny, meandering,” and as part of the expanding genre of “an asian man's magnum opus on friendship and memory.” While the narrator lives in New York, it’s mostly set in Los Angeles and Chicago; it feints at autofiction, and then jukes hard in the other direction. I have read the text over 50 times, front-to-back, and it still makes me laugh — no small thing.

I’m also hoping you, subscriber to this Substack, will consider preordering it. Preorders are immensely important to the life of a book, as they signal “hey, people care about this” to bookstores (and my publisher, ha ha). By my rough metric, preordering one copy is like buying two copies on the day of, maybe three. This page has links to online vendors such as Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc. — but if you have a local bookstore that you often visit, ordering through them, whether online or in person, would be really excellent. 

See Friendship has taken up a lot of my thoughts for the last few years, and with the finish line in sight, I’m trying to do every little thing to give it a nice landing. This is the first newsletter I’ve sent about this crucial issue of “ordering my book”… but it will not be the last. Thank you, and take care of yourself.