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Kiss Tomorrow Hello

Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty

by Kim Barnes
Claire Davis
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“How could ‘old age’ be a medical diagnosis when I wasn’t even forty?”
—Lolly Winston
“… if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,” she says, “just imagine how hard it must be for the aging knockouts, the living dolls.”
—Rebecca McClanahan
“I love sex. I love middle-age sex. I love married sex. I'm almost fifty and I've never felt sexier. But damn, it took a long time to get here.”
—Ellen Sussman
“And who is that woman who looks just like me in the mirror behind the bar? Could she be some evil twin, sitting in a place I’d never go alone, acting like a hanger-on, a groupie?”
—Lisa Norris
“… even past sixty (perhaps especially past sixty), women like me feel impelled to stick to the myths we have invented for ourselves.”
—Annick Smith
“Slow down. Don’t be so frenetic. Contemplate on the insights you have gained. Listen to the silence within.”
—Bharti Kirchner
“The young woman’s body I live inside still, that unforgotten home, is a text. It is engraved with memory …”
—Meredith Hall
A collection of blazingly honest, smart, and often humorous essays on middle age contributed by well-known writers such as Julia Glass, Joyce Maynard, Lolly Winston, Antonya Nelson, Diana Abu-Jaber, Judy Blunt, Lauren Slater, and other voices of the baby boom generation.
In the tradition of the bestselling A Bitch in the House, Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. Many women in their forties, fifties, and sixties discover that they are racing uphill, trying desperately to keep their romantic and social lives afloat just as those things they believe constant start to shift: The body begins its inevitable decline, sometimes gracefully, sometimes less so…
The twenty-five stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love (and sex) alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, and the humor infectious—just what you’d expect from the women whose works represent the best writings of their generation. From Lynn Freed’s wry “Happy Birthday to Me” to Pam Houston’s hilarious “Coffee Dates with a Beefcake”; from Ellen Sussman's "Tearing Up the Sheets" to Julia Glass's "I Have a Crush on Ted Geisel," Kiss Tomorrow Hello is a wise, lyrical, and sexy look at the pleasures and perils of midlife.

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    March 21, 2006

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      • ISBN: 9780385517638

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 19, 2005
      Boomer women share their surprise at arriving in midlife and the lessons they've learned along the way. Most of the contributors to this volume, edited by award-winning authors Barnes (In the Wilderness
      ) and Davis (Winter Range
      ), are in their 40s; a handful—among them Annick Smith, Beverly Lowry and Mary Clearman Blew—have reached 60. The entries vary greatly in tone and literary skill, but there are several outstanding contributions. Diana Abu-Jaber explores with intelligence the moves she has made and the meaning of permanence and place. Julia Glass describes the physical and emotional toll cancer treatments have taken on her and her children. On a lighter note, Pam Houston details with considerable wit a period when she was consumed by an erotic attraction (never consummated) to a man other than her husband (devoted to raising organic cattle of a certain breed, he was known as "the Scottish Highland beefcake"). No doubt other boomer women will find much to identify with.

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2006
      Reflecting on ordinary lives rich with the passion and drama of daily existence, the 25 talented women contributing to this satisfying volume, edited by Pulitzer Prize finalist Barnes ("In the Wilderness") and fiction writer Davis ("Season of the Snake"), expose their most personal dreams and fears in compelling and beautifully written essays. This is a diverse and satisfying mixture of midlife stories from urban, suburban, and rural writers who, through the more lucid self-awareness and self-acceptance that comes with growing older, have come to terms with considerable challenges, including poverty, illness, addiction, and sexual abuse. Diana Abu-Jaber, Mary Clearman Blew, Joyce Maynard, Lisa Norris, and the other authors reminisce about their childhoods, happy and otherwise, and consider love, desire, sex, careers, beauty, aging, and death. What unites these new essays is their vivid honesty, capturing universal truths and personal experiences in sparkling prose. Recommended for all public libraries." -Donna L. Davey, New York Univ. Lib."

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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