Old Friends

“Do you ever feel like friendships after college are never as good as the friends we made during college?”

Buddy and Frank, old college roommates, live in the same town and have been friends forever. Frank is trapped in a dead-end job, so Buddy decides to cheer him up by recreating a prank from their college days for Frank’s fiftieth birthday. But the prank doesn’t turn out quite as planned and ends up sparking some unexpected consequences. Will Buddy and Frank’s friendship survive the ensuing crisis? At the same time, Frank and his wife Catherine experience the reality of being empty-nesters when their college-age daughter mysteriously disappears, while Buddy becomes obsessed with tracking down another old college friend.

This engrossing story of ordinary people caught up in the everyday challenges of marriage, career, and family leads the reader on a soul-searching journey of surprising emotional depth. Old Friends is a bittersweet tale of fifty-somethings who, when their worlds are upended, must learn life-changing lessons of friendship, betrayal, loss, healing, and love.

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