Navigating the Messy Middle

"Roughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their 'best-before date' has long passed. ... Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing a fierce and unapologetic book for and about midlife women. [She] interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community"--