During Elliott’s last year of high school, his mother dies of ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that progressively robs motor skills. Now his whole family is adrift and floundering. Elliott’s only friend, the uber-intellectual and socially maladaptive Riley, tries to help but needs to set boundaries so she can deal with her own family stuff. Then, some technically impossible but inescapably real events start to change everything. Strange things happen in your darkest moments. No More Fridays is about a young person’s struggle to cope with alienation and grief through philosophy, science, nature, and relationship. It reminds readers: a mind open enough can accept that the death of a loved one is never the end of the story.
