Love and Trouble
A Midlife Reckoning
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and twelve, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager--when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. From her hilarious chapter titles ("How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years") to her subjects--from the boyfriend she dumped at fourteen the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm, to the girls who ruled her elite private school ("when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever, but it turned out...they also edited all the newspapers and magazines, and wrote all the books"), to raising a teenage daughter herself--Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Motherhood.
Middle-aged persons -- United States -- Biography.
Midlife crisis.
Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Motherhood.
Middle-aged persons -- United States -- Biography.
Midlife crisis.
ISBN:
9781101946503 (hardback)
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BIOGRAPHY Dederer, Claire | Ballentine Indoors | Biography | In |