How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this self-help book with a difference, Kieran Setiya conf "Midlife will help you recast your regrets and longing for the possibilities of youth into a more affirming vision for the rest of your life."---Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic