I knew very little about this book as I started it, but I couldn't stop once I started. A novel about friendships and mythologizing--how relationships are about two people coming together but said relationship may look different to each person within it. How someone might choose to see their friend and friendship in a certain way for their own purposes, for their own story. The story is told from the point of view of one half of a friendship; when I finished the book I wanted to re-read it, and try to see it from the other half's. It's the second book I've read recently where I was curious about how the story looked from another angle. It made me consider my own friendships.

There's a lot of sadness within its pages, and I cried as the novel neared its end. There's something more emotional (to me) about the inner workings and hardships of a friendship than a romantic relationship. There's good insight about how life collides with people and paths change and people grow in different directions.

Random notes: there's a point in which a character is described recovering from birth in a hospital; was especially interesting to me having just done the same a few months ago. And, Leonardo DiCaprio references are always funny.