Among Friends

"It’s your oldest friends who can really grind your gears. Hal Ebbott’s debut novel starts off as an examination of this relationship – two families spend a weekend in a house together to celebrate a birthday and, of course, old resentments and jealousies creep in and out of friendly tennis games and predinner drinks. But then something happens and everything shifts and all those resentments don’t seem so old anymore and the jealousy blooms into something else altogether."