On the Road (Again) is the third novella in the Girls series—a spin-off of the addictive, best-selling Tea series. Enjoy the journey as three spirited seniors from very different walks of life embark on a quest to fill their golden years with humor, wisdom, and adventure. Barry is in jail—hopefully to stay. But Carolyn fears that the phrase “Pickles and your mother” won’t protect her pregnant granddaughter unless she knows what it means. Meanwhile, Adeline’s lecherous children continue to lurk at the periphery of her life. So Anna becomes an Internet supersleuth, Adeline delivers an Oscar-worthy performance, and Carolyn steels herself for one more trek into Barry’s dark world. On the Road (Again), their trip to Texas is easy, but navigating the twists, turns, and detours of the Pickles mystery may leave them hopelessly lost.

Not long after they meet and start dating, trauma nurse Joseph Ford and paramedic Ridley Nash are drawn into a homicide investigation. Is there too much in their way to make it work?

"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I’ve read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn’t always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving." ―Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and *The Fun Parts* For young writers of a certain temperament―if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet―the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the “foul rag and bone shop of the heart.” That’s where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel―that is, when he isn’t teaching at the local women’s prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it’s time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student whose night shifts have become a standing rebuke to his own lack of direction. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fiancé, he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag-and-bone shop may be as squalid as his own, but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition. With a keen irony reminiscent of Sam Lipsyte or Lorrie Moore, and a romantic streak as wide as Roberto Bolaño’s, Andrew Martin’s Early Work marks the debut of a writer as funny and attentive as any novelist of his generation. “Beautifully executed and very funny, Early Work is a sharp-eyed, sharp-voiced debut that I didn’t want to put down.” ―Julia Pierpont, author of Among the Ten Thousand Things and *The Little Book of Feminist Saints* **