"Too Near Real", Jonathan Safran Foer

protagonist is some sort of sex pest put out to pasture by his university and retreats into the virtual world of Google Street View.

"Excavation", Edmund White & Michael Carroll

Dita's much younger husband Scott goes missing, so she has his former writing teacher and mentor come to Asbury Park to "help find him". But mostly she just wants someone to tell her she didn't do anything wrong.

"Run Kiss Daddy", Joyce Carol Oates

Reno brings his new, much younger wife Marlena and her two kids Devra and Kevin to Paraquarry Lake where he renovates a cabin and ruminates on his previous failed marriage and family.