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Read an exerpt from Boomer at Midlife.
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Boomer at Midlife
A Novel
by
Mark Cain
" ... an adventure that is both bold and bittersweet, a tragedy wrapped in a comedy. You can read it and laugh, or weep, but always with the shock of recognition."
--Landon Jones, bestselling author and National Book Award nominee for
Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
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Walter “Boomer” Stapleton has good reason to believe that he is the ultimate stereotype: divorced, middle-aged, tired of his job, involved with a much younger woman, and soon to lose his only child to college. He is a Baby Boomer, one of an anonymous 77 million Americans at or approaching midlife.
With his fiftieth birthday just around the corner, Boomer is finished being a poster child for his generation and determined to forge a new path despite his progressively shrinking set of life options. But each new choice he makes leads him deeper into the realm of uncertainty about who he is and where he really belongs.
From the halls of corporate America to the sidewalks and clubs of New Orleans, Boomer at Midlife lampoons the self-conscious Baby Boomers in a story that is at once comic, nostalgic, and melancholy.
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