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The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transitions

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Maud Lavin's highly original collection of essays about life and love at middle age is fresh and arresting. The way these people engage with the distinctive issues of living at a certain age will linger in the mind and heart long after you have closed the book on its final page. These pieces are engrossing for what they say, and worthy of admiration for how they say it.

Most of us don't think about our middle years until we are actually there. By then we are looking back, taking stock of a life lived, while trying to distill life's lessons for the years ahead. This book provides a lens through which those who are in midlife as well as those who are heading there can share in the intimate stories of growth and reflection as told by a wonderfully diverse array of middle agers who have weathered a full range of life's experiences. A thoughtful collection of writings about a place and stage in life that we all (if we are lucky) inevitably get to. The Oldest We've Ever Been makes clear that it is indeed about the journey after all, not any final destination, age or otherwise.