The Mutual Friend
Carter Bays2022

From the co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, a hilarious and thought-provoking comedy of manners set in New York City, following a sprawling cast of characters as they navigate life, love, loss, ambition, and spirituality--without ever looking up from their phones

It's the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She's twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and on top of all that, she just got kicked out of her apartment to make room for her roommate's fiancé's typewriters. If she can get her act together and sign up for the MCAT, she can start chasing her dream of becoming a doctor . . . but in the Age of Distraction, the distractions are so distracting. There's her tech millionaire brother's religious awakening and his picture-perfect wife's emotional breakdown. There's her chaotic new roommate's thirst for adventure, constantly getting them both in trouble. And, of course, there's the biggest distraction of all: love.

Within the story of one summer in one woman's life, our omniscient narrator unearths an epic tale, spanning continents and featuring a tapestry of characters tied to one another by threads both seen and unseen. Filled with all the warmth, humor, and heart that gained How I Met Your Mother its cult following, The Mutual Friend captures in sparkling detail the chaos of contemporary life, a life lived simultaneously in two different worlds--the physical one and the one behind our screens--that reveals how connected we all truly are.

Titre original : The Mutual Friend (2022)