Boomer at Midlife

by Mark Cain

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 Y. Jones, best-selling author and National Book Award nominee for Great America and the Baby Boom GenerationWalter "Boomer" Stapleton has good reason to believe that he is the ultimate 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 seventy-seven 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. He quits his job and leaves friends and family behind to move to New Orleans to play zydeco on his accordion. But what he encounters in The Big Easy leads him even 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.

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2007

About the author

Writer living in Austin, Texas.

My work could best be described as satire, with a little fantasy thrown in. This is a good characterization of my comic fantasy series, CIRCLES IN HELL.

Here is a link to the series page.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017...

Reviews

[C I KESZEI · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written, if completely different to the Circles series

A very well written book, completely different to the Circles series.

Whilst it is US centric and based around a specific mystical genre, the storyline was strong enough to keep me going.

[G · Rating 5 out of 5]

So Much Fun

I loved this book. I kept telling myself right through that it must be based on Mark Cain's or someone else's life. The content was so interesting and well researched. So glad I read it and learned about Zydeco music and dancing, I had never heard of it prior to reading the book.🤗. I have read all of Mark Chain's books. He is an excellent author.