Hard Times in Babylon

A work of literary fiction, Hard Times in Babylon tells the story of a man in his early sixties, a husband and father and filmmaker, who is already adrift in a malaise of irrelevance and invisibility when a global plague jolts him with thoughts of suicide. Why bother to live, he wonders, now that the world is facing its apocalypse. While he trudges through the ensuing days and months, seeing nothing but futility all around him, he imagines all the ways he could end things: rope, pills, a le...