Summer MB Musts
We don’t know everything, but we know a few good things.
It’s not even Fourth of July, but thanks to Miranda July, I think I’ve found my book of the summer. Dubbed “the first great perimenopause novel” by the New York Times, this layered, provocative novel is filled with gorgeous prose and centers around a semi-famous married artist in her 40s who departs on a cross-country road trip to end up at a motel 20 miles away from home, embarking in an affair with a younger man. As she unravels and ponders the hormonal anarchy of perimenopause, you can’t help but find yourself nodding at the injustice of it all and her seemingly bizarre journey holds more truth than many of us would like to admit about midlife.
As a mature women, Leary looks back at a life of always trying to be nice in this new collection of essays. She moves between humor and sarcasm to surprising candor, recounting funny and moving moments in her life. It will warm your people-pleasing heart.
Sandwich
Newman’s new novel is refreshingly funny and takes on the challenges of being in the sandwich generation (taking care of aging parents and children/adult children at the same time) while also combatting perimenopausal rage and keeping a marriage alive. Add in an obligatory family vacation and this book is one for the books.