HIGH

Tobi Andrews lives by the rules. Schedules. Plans. Stability is something you build, not something you gamble. His best friend, Reuben, lives like tomorrow is optional. When Tobi agrees to cross a line he has spent his teen years avoiding, one night fractures into something far larger. Time bends. Certainty dissolves. What begins as an experiment spirals into an existential collision with grief, memory, friendship, and the terrifying freedom of seeing the universe without filters.

As reality slips and perspectives warp, Tobi is forced to confront the stories he tells himself to feel safe and what happens when those stories can no longer hold. Loss echoes forward. Love mutates. Meaning is not handed down, but carved out of strange and sometimes unforgiving moments. HIGH is a coming of age novel about friendship as a force of nature, the cost of avoidance, and what remains when structure fails. It is not a cautionary tale. It is a question.