At the Bottom of Everything is a fascinating and compelling read. Ben Dolnick brings us inside the heads and hearts of the characters in this novel.
A horrible childhood secret has destroyed a friendship and altered the course of the lives of these two former friends. As much as they would like to, the past cannot be forgotten or ignored. It’s time to deal with it and learn how to move forward.
At the Bottom of Everything
A Novel
by Ben Dolnick
isbn 978-0307907981
Pub. date 9/3/13
Description: “It’s been ten years since the “incident,” and Adam has long decided he’s better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, spending lonely nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook, and pretending that he has some more meaningful plan for an adult life. But when he receives an email from Thomas’s mother begging for his help, he finds himself drawn back into his old friend’s world, and to the past he’s tried so desperately to forget. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick unspools a tale of spiritual reckoning, of search and escape, of longing and reaching for redemption– a tale of near hallucinatory power.”
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