Seventy: A Diary of My Seventy-First Year by Ian Brown — a fearlessly candid, often funny, and relentlessly real reckoning with turning seventy, from the award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and Sixty.
At sixty, Ian Brown still felt like an adolescent of the elder set. Aging seemed like a manageable challenge. A decade later, he is anything but calm. The body continues its quiet betrayals. Memory slips. Confidence wavers. Time, once an abstraction, now feels like a steady onshore breeze.
In this diary of his seventy-first year, Brown confronts the questions that arrive with the milestone: How much time is left? What still matters? Can desire, vanity, adventure, and dignity coexist with decline? He writes about medical tests and colonoscopies, family holidays and high-school reunions, pickleball and skiing, marriage after four decades, and the small daily lists that suddenly become essential.
Follow-up to the acclaimed Sixty, Seventy is darker, more urgent, and just as sharply observed. Brown does not offer easy consolation. Instead he offers an honest companion for anyone facing the fact that the remaining years are now more about what has already been lived than what still lies ahead.
Darkly humorous, unsparing, and deeply human, this is a memoir of aging that refuses to look away.
From the author of the award-winning The Boy in the Moon
