SOLVED. YA Contemporary. A boy goes on a journey to find his dying best friend's unknown father. Read around 2016. Spoilers ahead. [s]

[Rrruvfs]

I read this around 2016; A boy in a small town finds out his best friend is dying and his dying wish is to meet his unknown father. The main character goes on a trip and meets a girl who helps him. They check into a hotel together and there's this whole scene with sexual tension in an elevator, and they later make out in the back of a closed bus. At the end of the book, they meet a woman in a café I think, though I don't know her relation to the lost father, and she reveals that he'd been dead all along. The main character's best friend also dies by the end.

[Stephanie]

I don't remember all of the details, but I'm still 95% sure this is The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisner.

[Rrruvfs]

Stephanie wrote: "I don't remember all of the details, but I'm still 95% sure this is The Pull of Gravity by Gae Polisner."

It is! Thank you, I've been wondering about this book for years.