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No one tells you this : a memoir
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Physical Description
293 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
The co-founder of TheLi.st describes the discrimination she endured as a careerwoman without a spouse or child, tracing her midlife journey of self-discovery and how it challenged her beliefs about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness.
Contents
- Prologue: Numerology
- The forecast
- Husband material
- Messages from invisible sources
- Woman of a certain age
- Women never really faint
- The jet set
- Choose your own rom-com
- The grown-up
- Having it all
- The showdown
- On the road
- Be careful what you wish for
- The family you make
- The long goodbye begins
- Don't forsake those duties which keep you out of the nuthouse
- Men of a certain age
- What remains
- The other woman
- Women are well-acquainted with thirst
- We are not on the run
- The equality state
- Balls said the queen
- Epilogue: There are no happy endings, only good editing.
Subjects
- Single women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
- Canadian Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
- Man-woman relationships > New York (State) > New York.
- Caregivers > Family relationships > Ontario > Toronto.
- Middle-aged women > Family relationships.
- Mother and child.
- Self-realization in women.
- Women authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
- Women authors, American > 21st century > Family relationships.
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