Hey Man

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In 1989, seventeen year old Ian leaves Dublin for London and finds himself lodging with Tommy, a thirty year old actor whose life seems to move by different rules. Across one summer of long nights and early mornings, a friendship forms between them, rich, tender, and difficult to name. Then the adventure ends. Tommy vanishes, and Ian is left with the ache of something unfinished.

Fifteen years later, they meet again in Dublin. Ian is now Brother Eugene, a Benedictine monk searching for meaning in devotion. Tommy is living with fame, divorce, and the restlessness that has always followed him. The old spark remains, but so do the questions of what they were to each other, and why it still matters.

At Tommy’s sixtieth birthday, with illness drawing near, what has been buried begins to rise. Hey Man is a quiet, searching novel about male friendship, memory, and the bonds that shape a life.