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mid-life crisis
observations of home life
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personal re-invention
pressures of modern womanhood
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raising children
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Product details
- ISBN 9781911632283
- Dimensions: 138 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Murdoch Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just once or only at midlife; reassures us that small, recurring personal re-inventions are both normal and necessary; and advises that if you're going to faint, you should get low to the ground first. Most of all, Philpott shows that when you stop feeling satisfied with your life, you don't have to burn it all down and set off on a transcontinental hike (unless you want to, of course). You can call upon your many selves to figure out who you are, who you're not, and where you belong. Who among us isn't trying to do that?
Mary Laura Philpott's writing has been featured in print or online by New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, McSweeney's, Paris Review and other publications. She's the founding editor of Musing, the online magazine of Parnassus Books, as well as an Emmy-winning co-host of the literary show A Word on Words on Nashville Public Television. She lives in Nashville with her family.
