'The Rest of Our Lives' takes readers on a midlife crisis road trip ^0%

STLPR (St. Louis Public Radio) - By Heller McAlpin - 12/26/2025, 12:10 PM

The midlife crisis remains a rich vein for novelists, even as its sufferers skew ever older. In Ben Markovits' 12th novel, The Rest of Our Lives -- which was a finalist for this year's Booker Prize -- the narrator, 55-year-old Tom Layward, is trying to figure out what to do with his remaining time on this mortal coil. With his youngest... more