It Should Get You Across

Told in twenty-four song-like chapters, It Should Get You Across follows two people learning how to breathe in the same room while the world keeps asking them to be louder, faster, and simpler than they are.Set in ordinary streets, laundromats, cars, kitchens, and river overlooks, this is a novel about the small rituals that keep us alive: turning keys, waiting without quitting, forgiving without erasing, and choosing to stay when leaving would be easier.As memory and present tense braid together, the story traces grief, tenderness, humor, and stubborn hope through moments that never make headlines but quietly decide who we become.Lyrical without being precious, grounded without being bleak, It Should Get You Across is for readers who love emotionally rich literary fiction, music-shaped storytelling, and characters who survive by learning how to carry one another without ownership.This is not a story about rescue.It is a story about crossing.