In Tuesdays with Morrie (1997), Mitch Albom transcribed the life lessons of his former professor, Morrie Schwartz. Albom’s implied audience was Baby Boomers like himself who wanted to know how to move about in the world so their lives could be as emotionally rewarding as Morrie’s. With aging would come wisdom. Albom, born in 1958, told Boomers how they should live; Lorrie Moore, born a year earlier, told university-educated Boomers like me how we have lived and aged. University education has left her characters and her readers not cliché-wise, only wised up: making do as best they can with “the wrong tools” and “inadequate maps.”