Mutual Friend

From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking debut novel set in New York City, following a sprawling cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality without ever looking up from their phones.  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 freshly kicked out of her apartment. If she can just 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. His picture-perfect wife s emotional breakdown. Her chaotic new roommate s thirst for adventure. And, of course, there s the biggest distraction of all: Love.   From within the story of one summer in one woman s life, an epic tale is unearthed, 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 and reveals how connected we all truly are.