Marc Lindemeyr always blamed himself for not stopping Patrick, his lifelong best friend, from leaping to his death during senior year of high school. Haunted by a prickly incident with Patrick six weeks earlier, Marc's life quickly spirals into despair - and his aspirations of studying architecture at Yale wither and fade.

Now several years sober and living out Patrick's dream of working on air in radio, Marc continues to work with his psychiatrist to sift through his lingering guilt and shame, to overcome his seeming inability to forge an appropriate and lasting...