Please give me recommendations for fiction books to help me through a midlife crisis. Don't give me a synopsis, I want to be surprised. Just tell me the author and year it was published.
I'm sorry to hear you are going through a midlife crisis. Here are some fiction books that may help you through this:

- That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo, published in 2009
- Straight Man by Richard Russo, published in 1997
- It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis by Robyn Peterman, published in 2020
- Betwixt by Darynda Jones, published in 2020
- The Understudy by David Nicholls, published in 2005
- The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd, published in 2004
- Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, published in 1927