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A review by deniser821
Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
5.0
Sometimes the right book comes along at the right time and Why We Can’t Sleep was the book I needed to read during this Covid time.
Ada Calhoun writes specifically about Generation X women reaching midlife and the various struggles we are dealing with.
It was nostalgic and comforting reading about my generation from an author who is only one year younger than me.
Generation X is the forgotten generation. Smaller than both millennials and boomers. We were latchkey kids who learned to fend for ourselves. Even my teenagers now, will call me Boomer when irritated by something I’ve said.
This may not be the book for everyone but if you are a Generation x woman like me, you may love it.
‘That’s the other part of the midlife crisis thing, nobody, when you’re forty-five is telling you you’re awesome. Nobody. You’re kids aren’t going to say thank you and validate you and appreciate you. Work relationships are just not that; they care about your output’
‘You come to this place, midlife. You don’t know how you got here, but suddenly you are staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of the other lives you might have led. All your houses are haunted by the person you might have been.’ Hilary Mantel, Giving Up The Ghosts.
Ada Calhoun writes specifically about Generation X women reaching midlife and the various struggles we are dealing with.
It was nostalgic and comforting reading about my generation from an author who is only one year younger than me.
Generation X is the forgotten generation. Smaller than both millennials and boomers. We were latchkey kids who learned to fend for ourselves. Even my teenagers now, will call me Boomer when irritated by something I’ve said.
This may not be the book for everyone but if you are a Generation x woman like me, you may love it.
‘That’s the other part of the midlife crisis thing, nobody, when you’re forty-five is telling you you’re awesome. Nobody. You’re kids aren’t going to say thank you and validate you and appreciate you. Work relationships are just not that; they care about your output’
‘You come to this place, midlife. You don’t know how you got here, but suddenly you are staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of the other lives you might have led. All your houses are haunted by the person you might have been.’ Hilary Mantel, Giving Up The Ghosts.