Coming up for air

Coming up for air

Ben Markovits’s new novel, The Rest of Our Lives – the author’s twelfth – concerns that most American of subjects, the road trip. This odyssey traces the midlife breakdown, in terms of physical and mental health, of our engagingly humorous narrator, Tom, a law professor whose wife, Amy, had an affair many years previously. It is primarily concerned with the eternal dance of family, the gaps and joins between generations as they break apart, come…