A poignant novel of friendship, 13 Miles from Gilman, Illinois (And It Looks like Rain) is a story of roads not taken, where those roads may lead, and choices made along the way. Michael and David aren't making any big plans just now, don't really have many goals, beyond maybe graduating from college. But nothing is ever that easy. Before the school year is out, David will have fled the country in the face of terrible loss, leaving Michael to question his own path in the world. From a fallow Midwestern cornfield to the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, the book takes us on a journey through the lives of these two markedly different, but somehow not divergent lives, until one tragic-and morbidly comic-accident. In the end, 13 Miles from Gilman, Illinois (And It Looks like Rain) is an intimate, moving, and funny portrait of a man learning that an ordinary life-if lived well-is an adventure all its own.