Intimacy

Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi

This is not an uplifting read, but rather a strongly emotional tale of man's quest for fulfillment. The narrator is middle-aged and bored with the life he leads of stability and domesticity. He makes the decision to leave his wife and two young sons for a younger woman. He is always searching for that desirous feeling of being wanted and treasured. A mid-life crisis? Perhaps. Kureishi pens the emotions felt in a long marriage and the desire for something new and different. I found this to be both sad and honest. Kureishi has a talent for true emotional depiction.