Bipolar Buddies

Three strangers. One café. Twenty-six chapters of learning how to stay.

"I am still here. That's the whole thing. That's all I wanted to be able to say."

Polie is seven years sober, meticulous with his routines, and terrible at letting people in. Skip is a fast-talking Australian graphic designer whose therapist has assigned him the task of being present. Blu is quiet, watchful, and carrying something he hasn't named yet.

They meet by accident at a Seattle café on a rainy Saturday in January. Skip waves a stranger over. Blu says "sure" like he's testing the weight of the word, and a friendship begins. Not with a dramatic moment, but with pancakes, a breakfast burrito, and a second cup of coffee.

BIPOLAR BUDDIES: Just Keep Going follows Polie, Skip, and Blu across twenty-two months of Saturday mornings, late-night texts, honest conversations, and the kind of slow, stubborn healing that doesn't make for a good montage but makes for a real life.

This is a novel about resilience, sobriety, and the mess of being human, told without clinical distance or easy resolution. It is funny when the characters are funny. It is heavy when they are heavy. It does not flinch, and it does not rush.

What readers will find inside:

• A warmly honest portrayal of learning to live with neurodivergence
• Characters who feel like people you already know
• The kind of friendship that doesn't fix you but shows up anyway
• A Post-it note on a coffee maker that says just keep going

Some books are about people who save the world. This one is about people who show up week by week.