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We Can Save Us All Paperback – November 13, 2018

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One of ALA Booklist's Top Ten Debut Novels of 2018 "Nemett's wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." ―Booklist, Starred Review
Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war, climate disasters create a global state of emergency, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing.
Funded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs, a student revolution incubates at The Egg, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth―an impassioned heroine with a dark secret―propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide, inspiring a cult-like following. As the final superstorm arrives, they toe the line between good and evil, deliverance and demagogues, the damned and the saved.
In this sprawling, ambitious debut, Adam Nemett delves into contemporary life in all of its chaos and unknowing. We Can Save Us All is a brave, ribald, and multi-layered examination of what may be the fundamental question of our time: just who is responsible for fixing all of this?

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November 13, 2018
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
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1944700765
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"Nemett’s refreshing and high-energy novel has the heart and moral tension of a superhero story and the growing pains of a bildungsroman." ―Publishers Weekly

"Nemett’s recipe for disaster is sound―a dash of Pynchon, a hint of Neal Stephenson, and a nihilistic undertone that belies a semihopeful denouement... a confident, visceral debut that’s worth the ride." ―Kirkus Reviews

"Nemett's wondrously fresh novel positively bursts with charm, heart, and invention." ―Booklist, Starred Review

“Nemett captures a group whose unfettered exuberance is seldom found in today’s novels.” ―Antonia Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review

“An unlikely but timely contribution to the ongoing #MeToo dialog as well as humorous riposte to concerns about society and the environment. Highly recommended.” ―LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review

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"At a moment when it’s hard to trust anyone who claims to see things clearly, Adam Nemett has written a smart, sensitive, terrifying novel about masculinity, philosophy, technology, and the end of the world. Recommended for all college first-years and their parents, as well as those in between." ― Keith Gessen
"Adam Nemett is the kind of smart and the kind of funny we need right now. We Can Save Us All has the savvy, dangerous feel of early Don DeLillo." —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask, The Subject Steve and Home Land
"Adam Nemett has done something superheroic here. We Can Save Us All is a wild and uproarious debut that is also wise and deeply felt. Come for the costumes, comedy, and psychedelics; stay for the searching questions about what it means to live an honorable life―to try to be one of the Good Guys―at the (maybe) end of time." —Justin Taylor, author of The Gospel of Anarchy
"Adam Nemett is both an exciting new voice and a master storyteller. We Can Save Us All is a gripping tale of pre-apocalyptic Princeton students who organize themselves as radical renegades, a present-day mixture of the Merry Pranksters and the Weathermen of the 1960s. Climate change, designer drugs, gender/sexual exploration, and powerful demagogues are all vividly portrayed in this prescient and powerful high-energy novel. I gluttonously inhaled every page of this addictive, suspenseful story, and predict that soon enough Nemett will have a cult following." —Clara Bingham, author of Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found its Soul
"Adam Nemett is a terrific new writer, and in We Can Save Us All he has crafted a wildly entertaining and often moving book about what it's like to be young and rebellious in a dangerous world." —Tom Barbash, bestselling author of On Top of the World, Stay Up With Me and The Last Good Chance
"We Can Save Us All is a funny, moving, and very timely story about the persistent hope that a few good young people might fix what ails us. This book is both a roadmap and a cautionary tale" ― Christopher Beha, author of Arts & Entertainments

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Unnamed Press (November 13, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 363 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1944700765
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1944700768
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,552,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Adam Nemett is the author of WE CAN SAVE US ALL, one of Booklist's "Top 10 Debut Novels of 2018." His work has been published, reviewed and featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, Salon, Lit Hub, Fatherly, Variety, The New Yorker and C-Ville Weekly.

Adam serves as creative lead at History Factory, authoring award-winning nonfiction books for Lockheed Martin, Brooks Brothers, City of Hope, and Huntington Bank, and directing storytelling campaigns for 21st Century Fox, Adobe, HarperCollins, New Balance and Pfizer. Adam graduated from Princeton University and received his MFA from California College of the Arts. He is the writer/director of the feature film, The Instrument (2005), which LA Weekly described as, "damn near unclassifiable." In 2000, Nemett co-founded MIMA Music Inc., an educational nonprofit that has now operated in 40 countries.

He lives in Charlottesville with his wife and kids. Find him on Instagram (@thunderbird_disco) or at www.AdamNemett.com

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Ann M.

It's intense, funny, tragic, and had me coming back for more until there were no more pages.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2019

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The thought of a climate apocalypse on its way, and the all too current and real state of our union, made me feel uncomfortable, in a good way, from the first line while reading this book. I know I’m scared, and honestly thinking daily of what is next for all beings, how to live better, how to be better, and knowing that journey starts from the inside and works its way out - well, that to me is what a superhero is - and it’s attainable maybe sans the ability to fly at whim and spider climb walls. It is attainable to be miraculous. David (the main character) thinks about these things constantly. I’m with you David! He is seeking to BE the superhero. I felt a nostalgia, and love for these characters like I was watching my little brothers and sisters figuring themselves and the world out - while still aware that even in their somewhat misguided idealism, they could know something I didn’t, and maybe they would figure it all out for all of us! I found the characters to be complex, so then I fell for them, I both loved and despised parts of them. They were very human to me, grounding what was a swirling world inside the story. And about halfway through I started sleeping less, because I couldn’t put it down.

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Robert Morris

Great debut novel from an imaginative artist

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2019

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I really, really loved this book. It’s fun and engaging and it's got all the trappings of a superhero blockbuster - great action sequences, crazy costumes, and a whole mess of boy-meets-girl stuff. But if that’s all you’re looking for, you’ll probably be disappointed. And confused. This isn’t just some high fructose fluff to help pass the time. It’s a drugged-out trippy deep dive into some of the most important problems of our time: climate change, tribalism, techno-utopianism, etc.

The characters are pretentious, sometimes painfully so, but the writing never is. Nemett is a conjuring trick. He weaves a complex web of a story, and he makes it seem easy. It’s like he’s some kind of wham-bam literary spider-man.

Everyone will have different opinions and interpretations of what this book is about and what it means. Some people will probably see this as a heart-warming, coming-of-age story. Maybe, but I’m not sure what’s wrong with those people. I ultimately saw it as a piece of brutal satire. It’s Silicon Valley set in New Jersey. You've got the delusional CEO, the reckless COO, and a panoply of other young founder-types who believe they can fix everything if they just had enough technology and pharmaceuticals.

I'm looking forward to the next book from this author.

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B. Jason Dressel

A smart, funny and touching genre-bending novel that leaves you with a lot to think about.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2019

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Fittingly, I began reading “We Can Save Us All” on the Friday after Thanksgiving - the day the Trump administration ostensibly buried its own 1,600-page National Climate Assessment. Taking place just a few years from now, the book has a pre-apocalyptic setting that no longer feels so out of reach. Weird weather patterns and devastating storms. Increasingly hostile relations among the world’s superpowers. A media more interested in sensationalism reporting to an under-concerned population. Tribalism. Sound familiar? But the book’s far more complex than meets the eye. Against this backdrop setting is a story that has a lot of heart and a lot of attitude. It wrestles with the challenges and complexities of responsibility and activism – both on an individual and collective level. Just as the title says, “We Can Save Us All.” And if we don’t this story is a cautionary tale of the kinds of weird things that will happen. The characters are honest and authentic. All flawed. Neither good nor bad, but they’re trying really hard and you' re pulling for them. It’s a complex story with a lot going on, but this genre-bending novel is well structured, beautifully written and leaves you with a lot to think about it.

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J. Bergquist

Smart, addictive read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2019

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Loved this book. The novel starts off with really rich descriptions of its characters, and builds momentum that doesn't slow down ever. Beautiful writing throughout, and an absorbing story that I didn't want to put down. The characters are a bunch of subversive Princeton undergrads, working to combat a crumbling world - a few years in the future - from the effects of climate change. Intensified snow storms, prolonged black outs, and chronostrictesis, a concept where time itself is decreasing, plague the world. The Princeton subversives rise up by dropping out of school and moving in together in a a geodesic dome called The Egg, which is probably meant to represent the incubation of a new type of human, the type of human that can survive this new world, which is what these subversives set out to do, that is their mission. Save us all.

Also, books don't make me cry, but I welled up at the end of this one. Solid read, very entertaining. Demographically speaking, I'm 40 with kids and LOVED it, and I'm certain I would've loved it 20 years ago, as well.

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Dave A.

A beautifully-written thrill ride!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2020

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Wow, what a ride! Adam Nemett has written a reeling adventure of a novel that is both action-packed as well as very thoughtful and pensive. I couldn't put it down. I was sneaking pages while telling my kids to get their own breakfasts. I read it in under a week, couldn't stop turning pages. The book appeals to both sides of us: the side that wants to think deep thoughts about the future of humanity, and the side that wants to see a knock-down-drag-out wrestling match. All the while wrapped in Nemett's beautiful and heart-pounding prose. Excellent read.

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