Midlife crisis is very dreading, especially among men. Even though they mask their condition with masculine flippancy or bravura, they suffer from slings and arrows, too.

In this collection of essays compiled by Lorna Kalaw-Tirol, delve deeper into some of midlife men’s inner lives.

“Here are gems of glimpses into men’s inner lives that we will find nowhere else except in good fiction.”

— From the Foreword by Mariel N. Francisco