Fic­tion

At the Bot­tom of Everything

  • From the Publisher
May 13, 2013
A stun­ning nov­el of friend­ship, guilt, and mad­ness: two friends, torn apart by a ter­ri­ble secret, and the dark adven­ture that nei­ther of them ever meant to embark upon. 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. 

Discussion Questions