Chosen Family A Novel

"Funny, contemporary and attuned to the subtle negotiations that shape friendships and first loves." -Sydney Morning Herald

"Funny, profound, and deeply true, Chosen Family is a tender story about love, identity, family, and whether it is possible to combine the three into something entirely new. I turned the pages so fast, it felt like reading a mystery, except the only mystery is the spectacular complexity of the human heart. Wow, what a novel." -Holly Brickley, author of Deep Cuts

"With great wit, candor, and empathy, Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family tells a story of queer community, one where the lines between friendship and love blur, where characters try to forge new paths, sometimes stumbling gloriously along the way. Smart, moving, and funny, Chosen Family is an ode to those who reject convention in hopes of something brighter, truer, and more alive." -Thomas Grattan, author of In Tongues

"I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with Chosen Family. Beautiful, devastating, hilarious and full of life." -Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed

"Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family resists the tidy arc of the queer coming-of-age novel, which is exactly what makes it worth your time. Nell and Eve's friendship - eighteen years of misfire and repair, desire unnamed and finally, devastatingly, named - unfolds with the comic precision of a writer who knows that intimacy is mostly a series of near-misses. Gray is after something more elastic than a love story: the chosen family of the title isn't a consolation prize; it's the whole point." -Hannah Pittard, author of If You Love It, Let It Kill You

"Chosen Family is a dynamo of a novel. Madeleine Gray writes with swagger and wryness, crafting a will-they-won't-they for the ages. This is work that begs us to consider the breadth of friendship, love, and forgiveness. What do we owe each other? What are we willing to sacrifice in order to keep one another safe? Gorgeous, hilarious work. I ate this one up." -Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things

"A passionate ode to friendship that is sharp and hilarious funny, brave and utopian, sexy but not too serious about it. Most of all it felt deeply real and true." -Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy

"Whatever it is, Gray has it!" -Nigella Lawson