Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry

[Johir Uddin]

The seven stories in “Hunter’s Moon” act as an unflinching reality check on the state of middle-age manhood at the close of the second decade of the 21st century. The Cialis tubs and wealth management ads that pepper every golf tournament telecast portray the American man’s empty nest phase as a silver-tipped victory lap. On the ground, though, the truth is ugly. The suicide rate among American men aged 45 to 64 rose 45 percent between 1999 and 2017. The states with the toughest solitary-cowboy reputations — Montana, Alaska and Wyoming — charted highest on the self-erasure scale.

Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/books/review/even-in-hemingways-woods-sometimes-a-man-needs-to-cry.html