How far can you fall before you stop calling it a phase-and start calling it who you are?
Troy moves through life with a kind of careless momentum-parties, drugs, sex, and violence blurring into one long escape from consequence. Detached and self-aware, he understands the damage he causes but refuses to stop, convincing himself that nothing really matters.
As friendships fracture, family life deteriorates, and a second abortion forces him to confront the reality he's been avoiding, Troy doubles down on the only thing he knows: self-destruction.
Set in a world of suburban restlessness and emotional disconnection, Ride is a stark exploration of youth without direction-where meaning is optional, and consequences are inevitable.
Blending the raw immediacy of transgressive fiction with the introspection of literary psychological drama, Andrew Lafleche delivers a novel that is as unsettling as it is compulsively readable.
This is not a story about growing up.
It's about what happens when you don't.