20 over 40

Feeling young but starting to look old? Looking young but beginning to feel old? That’s midlife, marooned between youth and age. This book tells your story. Here are twenty writers, all over age forty, offering stories about dealing with worrisome children and aging parents, about a high school teacher who falls for his star pupil, about a patient with designs on her therapist. This anthology of short fiction is filled with both humor and peril. If you’re in the middle of your life, you’ll recognize your friends, your loved ones, and maybe even yourself.

Featuring stories by: Frederick Barthelme, Ron Carlson, Oliver Conant, Lesley Dormen, Mark Edmundson, Percival Everett, Gary Every, Robin Hemley, Margaret Hermes, Gish Jen, Linnea Johnson, Mark Kamine, David Leavitt, Matthew Love, Alice Mattison, Jane Mullen, Antonya Nelson, Phyllis Nobles, Heidi Jon Schmidt, George Singleton.