Four graduates move to New York broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome actor Willem; the sardonic painter JB; Malcolm, a frustrated architect; and the brilliant yet enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity.
Over many decades, their complex relationships come to be defined by their respective addictions, successes, and traumas, in this immensely powerful novel of love and the limits of human endurance.