Originally published: 2006.

History professor Ned Brummel is living happily with his partner of twelve years in small-town Maine, when he receives a phone call from his estranged friend, Jack, telling him that another friend, Andy, is very ill and possibly near death. As Ned boards a plane to Chicago on his way to his friend's bedside, he embarks on another journey into memory, examining the major events and small moments that have shaped his world and his relationships with these two very different, very important men.