Love and Trouble
A Midlife Reckoning
by Claire Dederer
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
At midlife, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middleaged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager. Blazingly intelligent, ...
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