5"Friends in Low Places deftly illuminates the intricacies of the male-bonding experience, following five best friends over several annual camping trips that embody everything from side-splitting laugher around the campfire to youthful heartbreak to drinking Olympics to crushed lifelong dreams to the ultimate power of forgiveness. There's a lot of love and hope in this novel, an interweaving of lives that shows the importance of vulnerable communing and always offering a hand when the valleys grow deeper. A nostalgic nod to the friendships we hold dear and the kinds of men we've always admired." Jonathan Starke - author, You've Got Something Coming