Made to Break

"Reading D. Foy''s prose is like watching Robert Stone and Wallace Stevens drag race across a frozen lake at midnight."—Anthony Swofford

Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends—three men and two women—head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They''ve been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.

After...