Published in 2017
286 pages
Claire Dederer is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses, which has been translated into twelve languages and which Elizabeth Gilbert called “the book we all need.” A book critic, essayist, and reporter, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and has also written for The Atlantic, Vogue, Slate, The Nation, and New York magazine, among other publications. A proud fourth-generation Seattle native, Claire lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound with her family.
What is this book about?
A hilarious, confrontational and moving story of one woman’s attempts to navigate her way through the challenges of mid-life, for lovers of How to Be a Woman and I’m Not With the Band.
“Claire Dederer is not only a brilliant author, but an honest and brave one” – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Claire Dederer’s youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex that left her benumbed and adrift. But then, after two decades of disciplined transformation, she’d become a successful writer, a faithful wife, and a mother – a real adult. That is, until one morning at 44, she found herself overcome by the same sexual cravings and ineffable sadness of her younger years. The hedonistic girl, ‘that crazy bitch’, was back -–or had she never left?
