Patrick and his brothers Ryan and Tony are all trying to avoid turning out like their parents. The parents have spent a lifetime fighting with each other and being miserable. Ryan married his high school sweet heart but let his parents talk him out of a good job and into working in their run down men's clothing store. Thus his wife left him and now he is living in the basement with his folks. Our narrator Patrick is in an unsatisfying relationship with Arthur, a good man but not what Patrick is looking for. Tony is engaged to Loreen but having a torrid affair with Vivian but can't seem to decide what he should do. He cares about Loreen but clearly doesn't feel any passion for her. All three brothers are looking for a way out thus the title. In the end, I'm not sure they all took the easy way but I guess that is for each reader to decide.
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