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Ben Markovits and Ron Charles Discuss “The Rest of Our Lives” at B&N Georgetown
Saturday, January 10th | 3 pm ET
3040 M St. NW | Washington, DC
3rd floor
Join us in person to welcome Ben Markovits who will be in conversation with Washington Post Book World critic Ron Charles for the U.S. launch of THE REST OF OUR LIVES.
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ABOUT THE BOOK – A 2025 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST
A triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about a man at a crossroads in his life.
Tom has dropped off his daughter at college, but his journey is far from over. He sets off on a road trip down memory lane — across America, visiting friends from the past while facing life’s twists and detours.
When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair twelve years ago, he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child left the nest. Now, while driving his college-bound daughter to Pittsburgh, he remembers his promise to himself. He is also on the run from his own health issues and a forced leave from work.
So, rather than returning to his wife in Westchester, Tom keeps driving west, with the vague plan of visiting people from his past—an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son—en route, maybe, to California. He’s moving towards a future he hasn’t even envisioned yet while he considers his past and the choices he’s made that have brought him to this particular present. Pitch-perfect, tender, and keenly observed, THE REST OF OUR LIVES is a story about what to do when the rest of your life is only just the beginning of your story.
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PRAISE for THE REST OF OUR LIVES by BEN MARKOVITS
“Wry, poignant…. Captures something essential about what it means to be a disappointed and disappointing White man in modern-day America…. Anyone willing to consider the thicket of fears, affections and recriminations that grows through the cracks of a long relationship will find in these pages an almost unbearable tenderness…. Captures the confessional cadences of regret and irony with such uncanny fidelity to actual speech that you’ll expect to find beer stains on these pages…irresistible.”—Washington Post
