Brian J. Simpson

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.