We're Gonna Get Through This Together by Z Hanna

About the book:

“These stories are high-octane contemporary satire, touching… the full catastrophe of 

21st century American life.” 

—Jess Row, author of The New Earth and White Flights 

We’re Gonna Get Through This Together is a sharp and affecting debut story collection that takes a discerning look at what happens when people search for connection in an alienating world. Blending satire, realism, and speculative fiction, Z. Hanna writes incisively about race, class, gender, sexuality, art, and activism—exploring the forces that bring people together and drive them apart. 

In the titular story, a white antiracist consultant tries to figure out how to sustain her work after her Mexican-American girlfriend abandons their coaching practice. “A Little to the Left” tells the story of a lesbian home from college who recruits a boy she knew in high school to help her become more queer. A supervisor at an “elective Pr*son” in “The Birmingham Effect” struggles to motivate his team as the company navigates a public scandal. In “Heroes’ Journey,” a trans couple attends a psychedelic retreat for climate activists while trying to heal their relationship. 

Scintillating, funny, and heart-rending, We’re Gonna Get Through This Together invites readers to investigate what separates us, while encouraging all of us to find a path forward together. 

Z. Hanna is a writer from Washington, DC. They hold a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from the California Insitute of the Arts. Their short stories have appeared in Guernica and The Breakwater Review, among other publications.

Z. Hanna will be joined in conversation by Zak Salih.

Zak Salih is the author of the novel Let's Get Back to the Party, published in 2021 by Algonquin Books. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, Foglifter, Epiphany, The Florida Review, The Millions, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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