Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending (2011) is a remarkable novel about time, memory, and the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. The limits of reliability and truthfulness are tested in this carefully plotted cautionary tale about the pitfalls of self-deception. Looking back, Tony Webster, in his 60 s, has “survived to tell the tale.” Though, in the end, it is not the tale familiarly rehearsed. Instead, reality catches up with him and forces him to re-evaluate his past and, at long last, to see through a glass clearly. Unsettling, the novel is an invitation to aging readers to examine the narrative of their lives and the reliability of their memories and ask themselves “who [they] are or have been.”