Dec 21, 2009

Breathing Lessons | What Do I Read Next?

Star employee of Baltimore's Rent-a-Back, Inc., Barnaby Gaitlan is the protagonist of Tyler's most recent novel, A Patchwork Planet (1998). At the age of thirty, Barnaby is divorced and still not finished with college or free of a debt to his parents. He helps senior citizens sort out their attics and basements while they fend off attempts to put them in nursing homes.

In Mary Pipher's study, Another Country; Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders (1999), she rums her attention to the psychological trauma and emotional difficulty surrounding what has become...