Mark's best friend Jim just jumped from the twentieth floor, forcing him to reassess the way he's been living his own life. This contemporary rites of passage novel is a calm, cool, and well-controlled fiction debut flooded with warmth and humanity. With the reflection of The Catcher in the Rye and the depth of Kenzaburo Oe's An Echo of Heaven, it captures the moment following disaster where either further collapse or recovery are possible. Music and literature help Mark find his way through as he faces questions about friendship, suicide, intervention, and guilt.