A Home At The End Of The World

A Home at the End of the World (1991) by Michael Cunningham – Sold by Crappy Old Books

Before The Hours made him a literary household name, Michael Cunningham delivered this raw, luminous debut that quietly punches you in the soul. A Home at the End of the World is a tender, tragicomic exploration of friendship, family, and chosen love in the margins of 1980s America. At its centre are Bobby and Jonathan—two boys from very different homes who forge an unshakeable bond that carries them through grief, queerness, wild parties, and unconventional domestic arrangements with a woman named Clare and a whole lot of yearning.

Cunningham’s prose hums with melancholy and hope, his characters flawed but painfully human. This is not a book about tidy endings or postcard lives—it’s about building a home from broken pieces and finding shelter in each other.

Condition: Gently worn, a bit like its characters—creased spine, softened edges, emotionally devastating in the best way.

Crappy Old Books: Because sometimes the best stories come a little bruised.

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