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It Should Get You Across: A Novel in 24 Songs
Two people. One blue car. Twenty-four small songs that become the quiet bridges between surviving and living.
In a city that smells of jasmine after rain, an ordinary night hands them the keys to a used steel-blue sedan and a cassette tape that says, “It should get you across.” That line—half promise, half prayer—becomes the only vow they need.
Over laundromat quarters, baseball chalk, light switches, and receipts kept for mercy, they learn that love is mostly checking the oil, planting moonflowers in cracked dirt, sweeping the same block until repetition feels like a crown. No grand gestures. Just the daily work of switching the heavy off.
Lyrical, tender, and unflinching, It Should Get You Across is a novel built from the moments most stories leave out—the pauses, the waiting, the small honest tasks that finally get you to the other side of grief, shame, and the long night.
Perfect for readers of Miriam Toews, Lily King, Ann Patchett, and anyone who believes rescue usually arrives wearing work clothes.
“Oh Light, switch the heavy off.” Keep a shovel handy. It should get you across.
In a city that smells of jasmine after rain, an ordinary night hands them the keys to a used steel-blue sedan and a cassette tape that says, “It should get you across.” That line—half promise, half prayer—becomes the only vow they need.
Over laundromat quarters, baseball chalk, light switches, and receipts kept for mercy, they learn that love is mostly checking the oil, planting moonflowers in cracked dirt, sweeping the same block until repetition feels like a crown. No grand gestures. Just the daily work of switching the heavy off.
Lyrical, tender, and unflinching, It Should Get You Across is a novel built from the moments most stories leave out—the pauses, the waiting, the small honest tasks that finally get you to the other side of grief, shame, and the long night.
Perfect for readers of Miriam Toews, Lily King, Ann Patchett, and anyone who believes rescue usually arrives wearing work clothes.
“Oh Light, switch the heavy off.” Keep a shovel handy. It should get you across.
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Published December 1, 2025
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