“We’re Gonna Get Through This Together packs a punch! These stories are high-octane contemporary satire, touching on movement politics, relationships, gender, race—the full catastrophe of 21st century American life… A satisfying and provocative debut from Z. Hanna.”

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

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 prison” 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.

“Incisive, wry and big-hearted, We’re Gonna Get Through This Together playfully explores absurdities and contradictions in modern living around whiteness, queerness, activism and artmaking.”

—Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello

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