Are You There, God? It’s Me. Kevin.

At twenty-six, Kevin Keck is trying to understand the intense lack of meaning in his life. His anxieties about an “Ultimate Purpose” ricochet through OCD, depression, mania, and a succession of relationships carrying their own personalized forms of madness.

He returns to his childhood home in North Carolina, where family reality awaits: a reclusive brother, an unpredictable mother, a grandmother with advanced Alzheimer’s, and two men perpetually repairing the same lawnmower in the basement.

The journey toward faith—in life, in God, or simply in the possibility of going on—is funny because it has to be.