Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly
moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the
twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever
traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an
amazement—and a great gift for its publisher.
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make
their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and
ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted,
sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a
frustrated architect