At the Bottom of Everything A Novel [Paperback]

It’s been ages since the “incident” that estranged former best friends Adam and Thomas, and Adam has long since decided he’s better off, even if his own life hasn’t exactly turned out as planned. Ten years after the two friends spoke their last words, Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping with the mother of a student, and spending most of his nights looking up his ex-girlfriend on Facebook.
 
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. Thomas hasn’t been doing well, and now he’s disappeared while traveling in India. As Adam embarks upon a magnificently strange and unlikely journey, Ben Dolnick unspools a tale of friendship, spiritual reckoning, and redemption.

“Warmhearted and strikingly perceptive. . . . A lively, often funny book about being young and smart and confused.” —The New York Times Book Review 
 
“Gripping. . . .At the Bottom of Everything shines as an examination of the ephemeral foundations of youth and friendship.” —Drew Toal, NPR
 
“Terrific, seemingly effortless. . . . Dolnick’s prose has abundant charm, humor, and intelligence, a knack for vivid details and stunning metaphors, and so many richly imagined characters that it calls to mind an updated Fitzgerald.”—Village Voice
 
“An engaging novel brimming over with humor and sympathetic characters.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Dolnick nails the casual brutality with which teenagers drop people they were once close to . . . . There is a lifelike complexity to the way it all plays out . . . . [A] slim, surprisingly haunting book.”  —The New York Times Book Review
 
“An engrossing, often wrenching novel about the limits of lovelã