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Four college friends arrive in New York with little money and big ambition, held together by friendship as their lives begin to diverge. Willem, JB, Malcolm, and Jude each chase a different future, but Jude remains the emotional centre of their circle, bright, private, and increasingly difficult to understand.

As the years pass, success, pride, addiction, and old damage reshape their bond. The novel follows their shared adulthood and the long shadow cast by Jude’s past, creating an intense portrait of loyalty, suffering, and the strain of living with trauma.