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Reviewed on November 7, 2025 | Fiction
This finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize offers a meditation on a depressed, well-off, middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his life. Struggling with what he thinks are post-COVID symptoms, a stagnant marriage, and career disappointments, 55-year-old Tom Layward decides to leave his wife at their Westchester, NY, home and head to the West Coast after dropping his yo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
