Kiss Tomorrow Hello

Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-five Women Over Forty

Author: Kim Barnes
Secondary Author: Claire Davis
ISBN: 9780385515412

A collection of blazingly honest, smart, and often humorous essays on middle age contributed by well-known writers such as Julia Glass, Joyce Maynard, Lolly Winston, Antonya Nelson, Diana Abu-Jaber, Judy Blunt, Lauren Slater, and other voices of the baby boom generation. In the tradition of the bestselling "A Bitch in the House," "Kiss Tomorrow Hello" brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. Many women in their forties, fifties, and sixties discover that they are racing uphill, trying desperately to keep their romantic and social lives afloat just as those things they believe constant start to shift: The body begins its inevitable decline, sometimes gracefully, sometimes less so... The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love (and sex) alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and co

Publisher: Doubleday
Publish Date: 2006

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Aging, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Mid-life/Older Women)