The Other, David GutersonFrom the author of the best selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the pedigreeand wealthof two of Seattles elite families; Neil Countryman is blue collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, theyre brought together by what they have in common:

How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her

No Matter What

and grimly hilarious

Even worse

sociopaths

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota

boss of the broken umbrellas

the year they turn thirty-three is no exception

Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man

in which Steve explores some of the toughest dating issues

they come to depend and rely upon one another

dreams are fraught with betrayal