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Glynnis MacNicol
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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256 |
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2018-07-10 |
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1501163132 |
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Simon & Schuster |
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1.74 pounds |
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Product Description
A provocative memoir that pulls back the curtain on the lives of “all the single ladies” through the prism of one woman’s fortieth year as she discovers that to be a woman navigating the world alone requires a resilience and courage that no one talks about, and is more exhilarating and rewarding than she ever imagined.
Always one to embrace a life that maximized independence and adventure and defied convention, Glynnis MacNicol nonetheless found herself feeling unmoored and anxious on the eve of her fortieth birthday.
Despite a successful career as a writer and a full life in New York City, she knew she had none of the things that the world told her she was supposed to have by this point: namely, a partner and/or child. She also knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, where women are concerned, if the story doesn’t end with a relationship or a child, it’s not considered worth telling. Women without partners or children are either objects of pity relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves.
Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those two roles and yet she was still plagued by the question, “what now?”
She concluded it was time to change the narrative.
Over the course of her fortieth year, which her memoir chronicles, Glynnis embarked on a revealing journey of self-discovery and adventure. Through the trials of family illness and turmoil, and the thrills of far-flung travel and adventures with men, young and old (and sometimes wearing cowboy hats), she was forced again and again to reckon with her biggest hopes and fears about love, death, sex, friendship, loneliness, and aging. In doing so, Glynnis comes to understand exactly what she’s made of and realizes that the truth of what is possible for her life is the exact opposite of everything she’d been led to believe.
A groundbreaking exploration written with admirable honesty, sharp wit, and compassion, No One Tells You This will appeal to anyone struggling to find their place in the world and who is determined to live by their own rules.
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