Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

"yuck" according to Kelly Burch. Gloomy, negative, one note., repetitive, endless. Two funniest chapters have less to do with the overall premise. Not my favorite.. Self Serving Wow, completely self-serving a repetitive mantra about how valuable and interesting she is; all the while she takes for granted what she actually has. Skillfully written, but contrived, which isn't an attractive characteristic for a memoir.. Dumpster fodder McLean-ite This book falls into the same rut as "The Bitch is Back". If you like this type baloney, have at it. There are however much better ways to spend one's reading time.

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 12, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. She exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife.. From her hilarious chapter titles ("How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years") to her subjects - from the boyfriend she dumped at 14 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 outthey 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. This exuberant