Great Disasters

"This tender and thought-provoking novel of male friendship and the calamities of post-9/11 America follows Graham, a writer still trying to find his footing in his 30s, as he looks back on his coming-of-age and the relationships that once shaped him. “In those years we lived like sisters,” the novel opens, as Graham traces how his tight friend group of six high school freshman boys in 2001 Chicago came to splinter over the years and where that leaves him. Great Disasters masterfully entwines the personal with the national, examining the different ways these six friends have navigated building their lives through the long war on terror, the lost hope of the Obama era and the rise of Donald Trump."