Seize the Day by Saul Bellow.
Unemployed and distressed by his relationships with his father and his estranged family, Tommy Wilhelm encounters the dubious counsel of Dr. Tamkin. Saul Bellow turns the promise of living in the moment into a question rather than an answer.
Read it for the vulnerability that makes advice persuasive. The book invites a discussion of how people distinguish genuine understanding from the reassurance they most want to hear.
Cover shown: Penguin Classics paperback, ISBN 9780142437612. The purchase option below is the Odyssey Editions ebook, ISBN 9781623730208.
