Into your forties
and approaching fifty, you’re in the throes of middle age.
Significant events include: children leaving home for college,
menopause, death of friends, and health concerns. Each essay in this
book traces the author’s journey through this sometimes difficult
period. Some of the vignettes are affecting, some try to be amusing,
and some are sad.
I enjoyed the essays
dealing with children going to college, particularly the one where
the author celebrates the fact that her son is on his way to being
independent. The essays on death, particularly the death of her
sister, are affecting. It’s hard to see a sibling die and raises
issues about our own mortality.
I didn’t find the
book particularly humorous. The tone of some of the essays is light,
but like the one about her concern that her bio wasn’t as good as
her friends, it was rather sad. If you’re facing middle or already
in it, this is an interesting book. It will tell you that what you’re
experiencing is not all that unusual,
and there is an end in sight
which may be much happier than where you are now.
I received this book
from Handlebar for this review.
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