bA warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years--from the best-selling author of iThe End of Your Life Book Clubib pBy the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know the theater people, writers, visual artists and comp lit majors, and various other quirky characters including the handful of students who shared his own major, Latin and Greek. He also knew exactly who he wanted to avoid the jocks. The jocks wore baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to be another species entirely, one Will might encounter only at his own peril. pAll this changed dramatically when Will collided with Chris Maxey, known to just about everyone as Maxey. Maxey was physically imposing, loud, and a star wrestler who was determined to become a Navy SEAL where he would later serve for six years. Thanks to the strangely libe