We need to hang out: a memoir of making friends - Billy Baker

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• A middle-aged everyman who realizes that he doesn't have any close friends is inspired to set out on a humorous and ultimately moving quest to revive old tribes and build new ones, all with the goal of having someone to hang out with on Wednesday nights.
• It's a lonely world out there.
• And it's only getting lonelier.
• Meet the man who thinks he can change that.
• At the age of forty, having settled into his busy career and active family life, Billy Baker discovers that he's lost something crucial along the way: his friends.
• Other priorities always seemed to come first, until all his close friendships had lapsed into distant memories.
• When he takes an assignment to write an article about the modern loneliness epidemic, he realizes just how common it is to be a middle-aged loner: almost fifty million Americans over the age of forty-five, especially men, suffer from chronic loneliness, which the surgeon general has declared one of the nation's greatest pathologies, worse than smoking, obesity, or heart disease in increasing a person's risk for premature death.
• Determined to defy these odds, Baker vows to salvage his lost friendships and blaze a path for men (and women) everywhere to improve their relationships old and new.
• In We Need to Hang Out , Baker embarks on an entertaining and relatable quest to reprioritize his ties with his buddies and forge more connections, all while balancing work, marriage, and kids.
• From leading a buried treasure hunt with his old college crew to organizing an impromptu ditch day for dozens of his former high school classmates to essentially starting a frat house for middle-aged guys in his neighborhood, he experiments with ways to keep in touch with his friends no matter how hectic their lives are--with surprising and deeply satisfying results.