"By turns hilarious, tender, and devastating, Rouse’s novel explores what it means to be the sandwich generation of gays today — caught between those who paved the way for equality, those who are too young to credit them, and a world that seems increasingly hostile again. I loved this ode to the family we find, the family we reinvent, and the support systems we lean on to find our authentic selves.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"Wade Rouse has written the most unabashedly joyful novel you'll read this year, a rip-roaringly funny ode to found family, Palm Springs, drag, and Bea Arthur. But beneath all the wigs and the California sunshine, That’s What Friends are For is also a poignant study of survival--of what it means to persevere in a world hell-bent on bringing you down, and a celebration of the friends who always have our backs." —Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding


“Fans of The Golden Girls will love this book inspired by the show, about friendship and aging in style. It's hilarious, I laughed out loud....it's a great book."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander on Today.com


"Inspired by The Golden Girls, this novel follows four aging gay men who live together in Palm Springs. Things are lovely until one of their estranged sisters moves in — and then everything starts to unravel. A really funny book about chosen family.”--Scary Mommy

"Full of heart, humor, and friendship, That’s What Friends Are For is the perfect cozy gift to make you laugh, cry, and fall in love with your chosen family. Think The Golden Girls meets four gay men and Palm Springs fabulousness. Wade Rouse is quick-witted and heartfelt with every last word. You’re going to love this read, so buy one for a gift and the other to read, stat."-- Emma Sutton-Williams, New York Post

"An affectionate queer homage to The Golden Girls that reads like a sitcom, complete with broad characters, amusing zingers, and poignant life lessons....Rouse delivers both humor and heart as he emphasizes that “being a friend is the role of a lifetime.” The result is equally breezy and heartfelt."--Publishers Weekly

 "This story will surely stick with me for a long while. Wade Rouse's writing is both laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving. It was warm and tender, but so incredibly profound and heartbreaking at times too! I feel like I experienced the full range of emotions reading this book, and I soaked up every word of it.”—Anneliese Judge, actor (Sweet Magnolias) and founder of the ‘who to judge?’ book club


"Michigan author Wade Rouse has dreamed up something irresistible: what happened to Coco, the gay housekeeper played by Charles Levin who appeared in the very first episode of “The Golden Girls” — then vanished, written out to make room for Sophia? Rouse fictionalizes the life of the actor who played him, imagining Coco alongside three aging gay besties living together in a fabulous pink mid-century home in Palm Springs, members of a monthly drag tribute called “The Golden Gays.” The New York Post recommends it as the “perfect cozy gift to make you laugh, cry and fall in love with your chosen family.” Coco deserved better — and now, finally, he gets it."--Pride Source