71 pages 2 hours read

The Best of Friends

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

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Chapters 29-45Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, death by suicide, substance use, physical abuse, and antigay bias.

Chapter 29 Summary: “Kendra”

Scrolling through Sawyer’s phone, Kendra discovers another video that strikes her as unusual. Like many of the others, it’s of Jacob, but in this one, he’s shirtless and standing in Sawyer’s closet. When Sawyer’s voice calls his name, Jacob turns, his face radiant with “desire”: “Sawyer’s voice is laced with it when he says Jacob’s name, and Jacob’s eyes return the fire” (142). Kendra drops the phone.

Chapter 30 Summary: “Lindsey”

Andrew offers to explain his secret “friendship” to Lindsey. Two years ago, he says, he joined an online community for married people who are seeking “companionship.” He emphasizes that it’s not a dating site, and his relationship with the other woman was never physical. He didn’t tell Lindsey about it, he says, because he didn’t want to hurt her: He just wanted a space where he could be himself again, away from his friends and family. He and this woman have not shared their names or any personal details; he knows her only as MayDay39, and his codename is L, short for his profile name, LonelyInLondon. Lindsey guesses that this alludes to a vacation they took in London two years before, which was “magical” for her but apparently isolating for Andrew.

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