In That’s What Friends Are For (MIRA), a poignant and hilarious story inspired by TV’s beloved The Golden Girls, bestselling author Wade Rouse celebrates love, aging, finding your people and the art of impeccably timed one-liners.
A novel that gives thanks to “old” friends, the book proves that while family may be the tie that binds, it’s the chosen family that truly keeps us together. Today named it March’s “best feel-good read.”
Rouse is an internationally bestselling author of 13 books, which have been translated into 20 languages and selected as Today Show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks and Michigan Notable Books. Rouse writes fiction under his grandma’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the working-poor Ozarks woman whose memory inspires his writing. He lives in Michigan and California, and hosts “Wine & Words with Wade,” a literary happy hour, every Thursday.
