500 million seconds

500 Million Seconds is a novel about time that cannot be held on to—and about a generation that spent too long believing it could. The protagonist is a successful, intelligent, driven man, one of those who managed to seize the opportunities of the 1990s and 2000s. Once he believed he was building his own life, in control of his choices and his future. But as the seconds tick away—five hundred million of them—the boundaries of reality begin to dissolve. Dreams turn into memories, memories in...