Middle age ennui

[Anonymous]

Please recommend a book, but not All Fours, Sandwich, Same as it ever was.

[Anonymous]

Not sure if you are looking for something edgy? If not, Anne Tyler has a couple of good ones. I enjoyed The Ladder of Years.

I will be watching for suggestions too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if you are looking for something edgy? If not, Anne Tyler has a couple of good ones. I enjoyed The Ladder of Years.

I will be watching for suggestions too!

Thank you! No, not necessarily edgy at all. I was going to say I welcome classics and modern. (All Fours was edgy and did nothing for me at all). When a guy is in the same position, someone will tell him to Plato or Marcus Aurelius. I’m open!

[Anonymous]

If you liked Same as it ever was, Claire Lombardo's book The most fun we ever had is good.

[Anonymous]

I agree Anne Tyler's books are mostly, amazing, fully absorbing and poignant, thought-provoking, life affirming and just well written.

Helen Dunmore was also a very strong writer

some of Julie Myerson's books are great, then she kind of went off the boil after she kicked out her teenage son for drug addiction and wrote about it - that kind of ended it for me with her books, but the early ones were great.

[Anonymous]

Another possibility:

Ask Again Yes: A Novel by Mary Beth Keane



From Goodreads:

“Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne—sets the stage for explosive events to come.”

“Ask Again, Yes is a moving novel about two families, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another possibility:

Ask Again Yes: A Novel by Mary Beth Keane



From Goodreads:

“Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, two rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses—the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne—sets the stage for explosive events to come.”

“Ask Again, Yes is a moving novel about two families, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.”

Sounds like schlock