The back blurb"After the shocking suicide of his girlfriend, a 21-yea-old embarks on a three-day odyssey beginning with the blues bars and nightclubs of New York City, where he meets a beautiful girl.Then, burdened with guilt,sadness and shame, he returns to his family in New Jersey, where he is forced to face uncomfortable truths about his relationship with them and his past"
This reminded me a little of Catcher in The Rye,but was inbeautifully dense and seductive narrative prose.