A review by captkaty
The Land of Steady Habits by Ted Thompson

4.0

Anders has spent his whole adult life working on Wall Street and commuting back and forth from his tony Connecticut suburb, but when he retires, he wonders what he really has to show for it. A beautifully updated colonial that's mortgaged up to the hilt? Two adult sons who he doesn't really know, one who's just graduated college... at age 30? A wife who spends her days with friends he hates and her nights with a bottle of chardonnay and computer solitaire? So he decides to dump it all: to divorce his wife, to stop paying the mortgage, and to move to a condo that he can decorate as garishly as he likes... and that's when things fall apart

A really biting commentary on the suburban rat race, sometimes a bit too uncomfortably close to home, but a great debut.