RESET

by Kevin Charles ‧ RELEASE DATE: today An absorbing, character-driven consideration of the unexpected cost of recovering lost youth. In Charles’ debut novel, middle-aged people awaken in younger bodies, leading to massive disruptions in their personal lives and society in general. One day, 23 years ago, everyone who was celebrating a 50th birthday awakened looking half their age (“It appears there has been some unexplainable biological event,” a news anchor reports). This phenomenon, known as the Reset, is now a common occurrence. Like all those inching toward their 50th, lawyer Tom Miller of Holly Springs, North Carolina, can choose to go through the Reset (it only works if you’re asleep at some point during the first two hours of your birthday; if you stay awake from midnight to two, you’ll see no change at all). Tom plans to rent an apartment and live on his own post-Reset, away from his wife, Elena, and their three children, the youngest of whom is a year away from graduating high school. Elena will go through her own Reset in a mere 18 months, but Tom wants to experience the youth he feels he’s missed due to his lifelong responsibilities. He promises to return once Elena Reset...