The Mutual Friend
Carter Bays
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
3.69
· 16 ratings · 477 pages · Published: 07 Jun 2022
It's the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She's twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and on top of all that, she just got kicked out of her apartment to make room for her roommate's fianc�'s typewriters. If she can get her act together and sign up for the MCAT, she can start chasing her dream of becoming a doctor . . . but in the Age of Distraction, the distractions are so distracting. There's her tech millionaire brother's religious awakening and his picture-perfect wife's emotional breakdown. There's her chaotic new roommate's thirst for adventure, constantly getting them both in trouble. And, of course, there's the biggest distraction of all: love.
Within the story of one summer in one woman's life, our omniscient narrator unearths an epic tale, spanning continents and featuring a tapestry of characters tied to one another by threads both seen and unseen. Filled with all the warmth, humor, and heart that gained How I Met Your Mother its cult following, The Mutual Friend captures in sparkling detail the chaos of contemporary life, a life lived simultaneously in two different worlds--the physical one and the one behind our screens--that reveals how connected we all truly are.
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