A novel about a young man who learns the devastating truth behind his friend's death, propelling him on an odyssey of discovery into the nature of grief in the digital age, the limits of memory, and the meaning of friendship.
Gordon...rejects tidiness ... The final chapter decenters Jacob in order to unfold outward — wonderfully so, like its own small metaphor of the internet. Gordon’s smart novel on the warping effects of nostalgia and technology asks us to follow some Forsterian advice from a century ago: Only connect.
Complex and authentic ... Gordon’s writing is both sensitive and grounded, skillfully capturing the complex emotional responses to loss through keen and evocative observations. He masterfully explores the capricious nature of memory—how certain moments resurface with ease, while others remain elusive—revealing the fluid, and often unreliable, ways we process the past.
